Shocking secrets exposed? That is a bold title and yet what I'am about to reveal to you is very likely to do just that because it goes against conventional wisdom that the media bestow upon us.
First of all you may want to ask: "What is metabolism?" Metabolism is an important part of what determines our body type. If it can be controlled it is another piece in the jigsaw towards attaining your desired physique. Metabolism is the basic rate at which your body burns calories. Skinny people have a fast metabolism and calories are burned quickly. I remember as a teenager I had an insanely quick metabolism where it seemed like I could eat anything and not put on a single pound in weight. I was very skinny though so even though I could eat whatever junk food I wanted it was little consolation when girls treated me as if I did not exist - it was not like I was easy to miss being 6 foot two inches tall! Anyways I have drifted to a tangent there, so you want to know how to alter your emtabolism to suit your needs? This is not always easy but it can be done!
To increase your emtabolism it has been found that increasing your meal frequency does this. This keeps the metabolism fires burning! It may not seem scientific but it is true. It is a factor in why dieters fail when they try to starve themselves as the metabolism is not being worked it starts to slow down.
Cardiovascular exercise such as running will also improve your metabolism. The aim of cardiovascular exercise is not the calories that you burn but the benefit of an increased metabolic rate!
Increasing your protein intake has also been found to increase metabolic rate. Also finally increasing the amount of muscle mass in your body will increase your metabolism as muscle will burn off more calories than fat.
If then you want to decrease your metabolism then the opposite approach is taken. Eating infrequently will result in a slow metabolism. A high percentage of body fat will slow it down. Lack of cardiovascular exercise or inactivity will slow it down.
Also and this will SHOCK YOU TO THE CORE all you dieters out there...
Low calorie dieting will also decrease your metabolic rate!? Crazy or what? The media are constantly shoving it down our throats to eat less and conventional weight loss diets are based around eating nothing but lettuce. This is why people reach a plateau when going on weight loss diets and not doing exercise with it. The body reacts by decreasing your metabolic rate to prevent you from shrivelling away into nothing. This does make sense because I sometimes eat a lot more than people that are fatter than me.
Final thoughts? In this post I have detailed the natural ways that metabolism can be controlled. As well as these natural methods at increasing or decreasing the metabolism which will aid in weight gain or weight loss there are also various supplements available. I thus promise you that in a future blog post I will look at these supplements and evaluate them for you!
Until next time,
Steve
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