Want To Burn More Fat While Exercising?
Here's The Secret!

Not satisfied with the amount of fat you're burning during your exercise routine? You're not alone. Now research shows how this one secret can help.

The results are in. Admittedly, it's a small study. But it's conclusion on how to increase the amount of fat your body burns during exercise is exciting.

And the great thing about this now-revealed secret, it's easy enough to implement. So what's the buzz about?

Studies now indicate that the best way to burn fat is to exercise with little food in your system. Yes, it really is that simple.

Let's face it, most of us who exercise do so to do one of two things (or both!): burn fat or build muscle.

Generally speaking if you're trying to burn fat, many of you already do a version of this. You eat low-carbohydrate foods and perhaps even fast before you begin to exercise.

Others say that exercising on an empty stomach only invites an eventual weight gain. While exercising, the body activates a metabolic alert, which signals the need to eat.

On the other hand if you're going through that exercise routine with an eye to increasing your muscle mass, then you eat carbohydrates and make sure you eat before you start your physical activity.

Gets a little complicated now, doesn't it?

Well, we're about to sort all of this out in a moment.

Until now, even though many of us practiced this, there were no studies to back these theories up. Now several studies suggest that exercising on an empty stomach is indeed the proper action if you're trying to burn fat.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham and several other institutions studied seven individuals who performed extensive physical exercise while fasting. They compared this with seven other individuals who ate and then exercised.

Their conclusion? Those who exercised on an empty stomach burned more body fat than those who ate and then worked out.

And there's good reason for this, according to one professor of exercise physiology. Peter Hespel, of the University of Leuven in Belgium, explains that when a person fasts and then exercises, the body can't avail itself to any carbohydrates. Additionally, adrenaline soars and insulin output is low. This means the muscles must oxidize or dissolve its reserve fatty acids.

Another "secret" also was discovered during this study. If you're exercising to achieve greater physical performance, you should do eat, then exercise.

Exercising on an empty stomach, the research indicates, produces a lower physical performance.

These results were recently published in the official journal of the American College of Sports Medicine, called "Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise."

So now, you know the secret! While you're performance level may not be at an all-time high, exercising on an empty stomach helps you burn more fat. And if you're in the market of trying to lose weight, well, that's always a good thing.

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