Good ways to boost your metabolism?!
Question: Is it true that drinking a cold glass of water right away when you wake up can boost your metabolism? and are there any other good ways to make it faster?
Answers: Is it true that drinking a cold glass of water right away when you wake up can boost your metabolism? and are there any other good ways to make it faster?
well the reason people say cold water boost your metabolism is because it has no calories. the body cannot utilize cold water it must warm it up inside the body first. This requires energy to do so and since water itself has no calories it will result in using more calories than the water provides therefore burning additional calories which eventually can cause weight loss.
But don't get too excited its not much at all. If you drink the recommended 64oz of water per day thats about 70calories you'll burn. One pound of fat is about 3500 calories. So its not the most effective thing to do for weight loss, you should drink water for the other health benefits.
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Anyways drinking [green]tea aids in weight loss by boosting the metabolism.
Also eating 5-6times per day instead of 3 times helps boost your metabolism. If you skip meals your body goes into "starvation" mode since it doesn't know when its going to be fed next. In starvation mode its more frugal with calorie intake and stores more fat the next time you eat in case it doesn't get fed again it'll have something to feed off of. If you are constantly eating(no more food, just more often: 6small meals instead of 3 big ones) then it tricks the body that it will always be fed and won't store as much fat.
The ideal times to eat are:
7am: Breakfast
10am: Snack
1pm:Lunch
4pm:Snack
7pm:Dinner
And by snack I mean a healthy snack like fruits, a granola bar, veggies, salad, nuts stuff like that
I have never heard of the water thing but green tea works.
Do Barbell Squats:
The best way to practice your form is at home stand a few inches in front of a chair, position yourself as if someone had pulled it out behind you trying to trick you into falling on your butt - except they hadn't quite pulled it out far enough (so when you squat down only the rearmost inch and a half of your butt will actually land on only the most forward inch and a half of the chair's seat.
Now practice your squats, sticking your butt out behind you, all of your weight through your heels, and perform a few SLOW and CONTROLLED squats where you gently come down to make contact with the chair, do not allow yourself to flop down. Pause at the bottom for a couple of seconds and then repeat. Once you've got that down your body will remember what a perfect squat feels like -- so in the gym, start out on the light side and only add more weight when you can do three sets of eight squats that are as perfect as your chair squats at home.