Will skipping help me lose fat?!


Question: Will skipping help me lose fat?
Ive been working out for a while now mostly to develp a hard core. Ive achieved that within 2 years. I have really hard abs and chest, now its time to lose a thin layer of fat. I recently bought a skipping rope thinking it could help me lose some fat. I dont want to get skinny, i just want to lose the fat. I do Muay Thai for 1 hour half of the week, and workout the rest of the days. But i want to speed up the process of losing the fat, will jumproping (skipping) help me lose weight? I have a workout of skipping for 5 minutes and 3 sets so a total of 15 minutes every friday saturday and sunday because i have muay thai monday through to thursday. Will it help? Or if not what could i do to lose it besides dieting because i have already started to diet last week. Thanks :D

Answers:

Any aerobic activity, if performed for a long enough time, can help lose excess fat. Try increasing your skipping to a sustained half-hour every other day or so, leaving a day between your heavy skipping workouts to give your body time to heal and get stronger. Your shorter workouts are more likely building muscle and agility (not bad things in themselves), but to really burn the fat takes at least half an hour, depending on your fitness level and individual genetics.

Be very careful with your diet. Eat normal healthy meals that give you a full range of nutrients, include vitamins and minerals, healthy complete proteins, complex carbohydrates (avoid simple sugars), and healthy fats, like omega-3, 6 and 9. Avoid saturated fats and transfats. Drink plenty of water, especially while you performing aerobic workouts, be it skipping, Muay Thai, or whatever that gets the heart pumping and the heart racing.

When working out, do not use a restrictive diet. Make sure that you are eating what you use up, or you may have difficulties sustaining muscle growth and increased endurance. Restrictive diets don't work because they starve the body of essential nutrients. Remember that it takes sustained muscle activity to really get burning the fat. For the first little while, the muscles will use sugars stored in the muscles and in the blood. When that starts to run out, the muscles send chemical signals to "release the grease!" When the fat cells start getting this message, they start dumping the fatty acids they store into the bloodstream and the muscles use it to keep moving. Now you are dropping the pounds, a few grams at a time.

A slow workout over a long time can be just as effective as a fast workout over a short time. A few months ago, I moved a couple of tonnes of wood at my brother's farm, as he was cutting down dead trees, for a couple of hours and lost about 5 kg that afternoon.

Keep in mind that the body wants a thin layer of subcutaneous fat. As a man, your body wants above 4 percent body fat, depending on your genetics. As a woman, it is substantially higher, above 10 percent, but again, depends on individual genetics.

If you drop below this, various activities that rely on fat can't work and your reproductive system starts decreasing function, especially in women, because you aren't healthy enough to bring a child into the world. You body is interpreting this as you being caught in a drought, which is a bad time to add a child to your responsibilities.



I'm doing skipping too .. It really helps ..
Along that I'm doing yoga & cycling as my daily routine ...
Ya it will work just try harder :)




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