“As I get older, my metabolism keeps getting slower!!”

“Man – I used to be able to eat anything.. now I can’t even get away with a bite of cake!”

Sound familiar?  As we age, it is crucial to keep our metabolism at a good rate.  The rate of your metabolism depends on the amount of calories you eat, calories burned exercising, and your genetic make-up. Age does seem to cause a slowdown in metabolism.. BUT I have good news!

Regular exercise can thwart this slowdown.

In fact – here are 7 different ways to boost your metabolism.

1. Build Lean Muscle

Lean muscle mass burns more calories than fat while the body is at rest. When you strength train, your body breaks down muscle tissue to repair it even stronger.  This can rev up your metabolism for up to 72 hours.

2. Afterburn Effect

You can actually TORCH calories and spike up your metabolism after an intense metabolic workout.  Here’s how: increase the intensity (try interval training), add weights, and push yourself!  I wrote a blog post JUST on this topic.. you can read it HERE.

3. Interval Training

Interval training, where you mix up high intensity with easy effort moves, stimulates fat-burning in the body. Interval training boosts endurance, burns more calories, and causes you to work harder without spending a lot of time at the high intensity.  A type of interval training that is trending in the top gyms and one of our boot camp favorites is called tabatas.  Here’s how to do it: 20 seconds of exercise (HARD!), 10 seconds of rest, 20 seconds of exercise (HARD!) for 4 minutes.  Give it a try with jump squats! :) [Read more…]