The 4 Best Exercises to Lose Fat

If you want to burn that fat off your body, then you need to do the kind of exercises that will get your system revved up, that will make your body look for sources of energy and engage bigger, more powerful muscles. You need to amp up your system by doing exercises that are athletic and functional. None of that resistance machinery. No bicep curls, nothing fancy or specific. Instead, let’s engage the entire body in a series of fat-burning exercises. Clever? Let’s go!

The first is the most powerful and a true classic. People have been doing this exercise ever since they came down from the trees and it basically involves picking things up off the ground. That’s right, the deadlift is the first and most important exercise in this set. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, and then squat down, back straight, facing a point on the floor, and grab the bar with your hands shoulder-width apart. Raise the bar by squeezing your lats, driving your heels into the ground and driving your hips forward, lifting the bar until it’s in front of your thighs.

Follow this immediately with a deadlift jump. Drop the bar and squat down in the same position you did for the deadlift, but this time explode into a jump, using your arms for as much leverage as possible. This is an explosive move and you won’t build strength but power, which is great for both health and athletic ability.

From here, go to the bench press. This is the equivalent of the deadlift for the chest. Grab the bar with an outer shoulder overhand grip and lower it toward your chest before pushing it back up. You should pinch your shoulder blades under you and hold your breath as you do the reps. As soon as you finish your reps, go straight to the explosive version. Get into a push-up position, and then push as hard as you can to get up straight off the floor. Clap your hands once while in the air, then drop back down into another push-up. These are the equivalent of deadlift jumps and will help you build explosive power for great benefits.

The benefit of combining these movements is that they will combine strength training with explosive power development. The more you combine deep strength training with powerful explosive action, the more your system revs up and the more energy you consume. The big mistake people make is thinking that doing 30 minutes of low-intensity cardio on the treadmill will burn all the calories they need. However, the truth is that you burn very little doing low-intensity cardio, unless you do it for hours and hours. If people did more weight lifting, more explosive exercises and strength training, they would burn a lot more calories and reach their weight loss goals more easily.