Many of think that the only way to lose weight is to run for an hour each day on the treadmill, racking up those calories burned through long, slow hours. Often, that's the very reason we don't want to go to the gym; our regimens can become boring, repetitive, and take forever to accomplish results. Instead, there are many different ways to lose weight beyond the slow cardio, and in today's article we're going to look at one of the very best strength training exercises that can help you burn that fat. While this single exercise won't be the silver bullet for all your weight loss woes, it sure will help you burn fat faster!
The secret behind this move is that it is a compound exercise, but before we tell you what the move is itself, let us explain what a ‘compound exercise' is, and why it's so brilliant. When you go the gym, you often see people exercising a single part of their body. Their biceps, their chest, whatever it is they are training, they are doing that muscle in isolation. A compound exercise is the opposite: you use many different body parts at once, bringing them all into play and thus helping activate far more muscles at once, resulting in a greater fat burn.
The exercise that helps you burn the most fat is the squat to overhead press. Before you raise that eyebrow and walk away, let us explain how easy this move is. Anybody can do it, and in fact, everybody would benefit. All that it involves is holding light weights in each hand (or as much weight as you can hold—this might range from 10lbs to 30 or more!). You then lower yourself into a deep squat, so that the tops of your thighs are parallel to the ground, your back is straight, knees flared wide open, weights held by your shoulders.
Then you rise into a standing position, and push the weights up into the sky, extending your arms and straightening them overhead. That's one rep. Lower back down into the deep squat, hold for a beat, and then rise again and extend overhead. Do that for three sets, each one comprised of twelve reps, and you'll work up an incredible sweat as everything from your calves, hamstrings, glutes, quads, core, shoulders, back and arms are engaged in one killer weight loss inducing strength training exercise!