Lose Weight In Winter – Metabolic Conditioning
Dropping weight in winter doesn’t have to be drastically different to how you would do it normally, you just need to take into account a few different aspects, namely your nutrition and metabolic conditioning. Just make sure you do your High Intensity Interval Training along with your regular workouts and a good nutritional plan and there should be no problems in losing weight in winter!
When it comes to eating healthy and losing weight in winter, most people are not aware of the fact that the approach to their weight loss plan must be a little different.
This is due to the fact that during the colder temperatures, the body craves warm cooked foods and fats as a way of keeping itself protected from the cold. These foods are comforting and often high in calories, making you feel full, tired and satisfied. So, if you can find a nutritional plan that incorporated these warm foods whilst still being able to lose weight, it is going to make your winter weight gain a thing of the past.
In addition to nutrition, your metabolism is also something that is a major factor that comes in to play when losing weight in winter. Your metabolism is responsible for transferring the food you eat into energy; the higher the metabolism, the more calories you burn on a daily basis. So, for losing weight, you are going to want your metabolic activity to be heightened.
If weight loss is a goal of yours, you’d find it very beneficial to make use of metabolic conditioning, especially during the winter months. We utalize this approach at all our Bootcamp and Personal Training sessions. It’s simply exercise that promotes a response in the body by making it use the energy reserves, AKA the calories you are carrying.
You are essentially trying to utilize work load with rest times to force your body to have to use energy reserves. When attempting to lose weight, your best bet is to stick with High Intensity Interval Training, here’s an example below:
- Broad Jumps – 20 seconds, 10 seconds rest.
- Box Jumps – 20 seconds, 10 seconds rest.
- Push Ups – 20 Seconds, 10 seconds rest.
Repeat x 8 (essentially you should be huffing, puffing and sweating!)