In the first part we saw that specific muscle exercises that are challenging enough and isolate the muscles were best to build muscle mass and what was a part of metabolism working to this, the anabolism.
Losing fat is certainly harder than building muscle.
It requires a proper nutrition and a change of eating habit, and workouts are much more challenging for your whole body than isolation exercises.
Don't be scared, and let's see what you could immediately implement to burn many times more fat.
I mentioned nutrition and that's a very important point.
I'd say it is as much important as training.
If you are not "active" and don't want to regularly train and make some exercises, then you will need to eat less to lose some fat.
Actually you need to reduce your calorie intake.
I could stop here but you need more indications, what follows is true if you are training as well as if you don't.
By eating less, I mean you need to reduce the calorie intake, not to eat only two times a day instead of three.
It's even the contrary.
You should eat six times a day, but small meals.
There are few reasons for that.
First, you will not be hungry.
If you have to take smaller meals than those you are used to, then you may be already get hungry after 2 or 3 hours following your small meal.
That's cool because when you eat 6 times a day, you approximately eat every 2 or 3 hours.
Second reason, this will speed up your metabolism, and burn more calories.
Foods have a thermic effect, and eating is already burning calories.
That's true, when you eat, you're increasing your metabolism (every activity needs metabolism), so if you eat 6 times a day, you will burn more calories than when eating only 3 times.
Just by eating ! The third reason is again about your metabolism.
You have a stock of calories that your body burns slowly when you are hungry because it needs energy.
Your body is used to receive 3 meals a day, your body knows it will be fed and when.
Even if you trained your body (teaching, not exercising) to receive food only one time a day, it won't burn many calories.
It will get used to this habit and will have to spare calories and burn them even slower because it is its only source of energy.
So eating less frequently is not only unhealthy, is is also not "burning-fat-friendly".
So you understand the process of eating 6 times a day.
Eating more frequently, so your body gets used to be fed more frequently, so it burns calories more frequently, just because you eat and because it is also hungry (needs energy) more frequently.
You also make your body think it doesn't need to spare calories, since you will give some more often.
In the third part, we will learn what are the type of exercises that burns fat, and why.