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healthy natural weight can be maintained through good eating, regular exercise
and stress management. One has to combine a healthy diet with regular physical
activity to achieve optimum results.
There are fad diets promising rapid weight reduction, but the truth is that it
leads to loss of lean muscle mass instead of loss of excess body fat. For losing
weight safely, one should eat less food, go in for more physical activity, or
combine both since there are no shortcuts to losing weight in a balanced way.
It has been seen that whenever a person exercises more than usual, they burn calories
and fat.
The equation goes like this-A pound of body weight is equivalent to 3,500 calories.
So everyday if you eat 500 calories less, you will lose a pound of weight in a
week's time. But the same result can be achieved in a healthier way by exercising
and dieting together, with 250 calories being lost through dieting and 250 calories
through exercising. Thus if a person increases the amount of exercise, but maintains
the same diet, there will definitely be body weight loss.
Your age, sex, body weight determines how many calories you require. To remain
at the same weight, your calories intake has to equal your calories burned. Thus,
to lose weight, your calories burned have to exceed the amount of calories you
take in. Thus your body weight will be determined by calories intake and calories
output.
Benefits of Exercise
Exercise helps to get rid of body fat, improves metabolic efficiency rates,
and builds muscle strength and endurance. Muscle burns more calories than fat.
The lower your body fat, the higher will be the ratio of lean muscle to fat,
and the higher will be your metabolic rate Also, higher metabolic rate leads
to more calories being burned at a faster rate.
Everyone not only wants to be healthy, but they also want to be fit. Fitness
is influenced by various factors like stamina, flexibility and strength. You
need to be fit to play many sports such as football, hockey and also racquet
games like tennis, squash and badminton.
Racquet Sports: Squash
To lose weight and build muscle in a fun way, sports are a good method. An interesting
way of exercising is playing a sport, which motivates you to achieve a score.
Tennis and Squash are racquet sports, which improve your speed and agility.
Squash is a game played out in a small court between two players. You have to
hit a ball with your racquet to the walls and your opponent also has to hit
the ball against the wall.
During the game of squash, you find yourself running all over the place after
a ball which is bouncing all over the place. You are running and laughing and
sweating and losing weight too! You are also highly motivated, as you want to
score well and win against your opponent. No boring exercises routines through
which you are dragging yourself!
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