What Type of Exercises Will Help You Lose Weight?

So you’re now eating healthy and watching your calorie intake and want to take your weight loss to the next level with exercise.

What exercises will help you continue to lose weight?

The answer to that is aerobic and strength training exercises.

Aerobic activity is anything from walking to sprinting, swimming and cycling. It gets the blood moving and the heart rate up. Extra benefits to aerobic activity is that it “exercises” your diaphragm and your heart - they’re muscles too after all! So your overall health will improve as well.

All aerobic activity burns calories while you’re moving and there’s also an “afterburn” period where you continue to burn calories while your body is still cooling back down.

Strength training exercises can be body weight exercises like planks, lunges and squats; pin-loaded equipment in the gym provides weight training to specific muscle groups and can be set from light weights for beginners through to heavy for the more advanced.

Strength training tones muscles and muscle burns body fat 24 hours a day! Extra benefits include keeping bones nice and strong and re-activating all those muscles helps improve your posture, improves your stability and reduces the risk of back injuries. And ladies you will not end up with Schwarzenegger muscles, but you will end up with nicely toned arms and legs :)

For anyone looking to take their weight loss to the next level with exercise, we recommend alternating days of aerobics and strength training, building up to five days a week.

And we can help you get started with a program that’s at your personal fitness level.

If you have injuries or other conditions, we have an in-house Exercise Physiologist (that can be claimed under Medicare) who can also provide a program for you.

Why not come in for a free 7 Day Pass that includes a health assessment and fitness testing, to get you started?