Cardio vs. HIIT: Best Exercises for Rapid Fat Loss

HIIT and kickboxing offer high calorie-burning potential for rapid fat loss compared to traditional long cardio. Targeted dance moves and treadmill intervals can help reduce inches around the waist and belly.

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Is Running the Best Exercise to Lose Weight?

If you ask one hundred different experts which is the best exercise for losing weight, you might get one hundred different answers. Oregon-based fitness coach Ben Cohn remarks that this is because the "best" exercise will depend on a person's goals, tastes and level of fitness.

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Workout Routines for Mesomorphs

Exercise science identifies three body types: ectomorph, endomorph and mesomorph. Ectomorphs are able to stay thin with little difficulty, even when trying to build muscle and mass. Endomorphs have the opposite problem: they gain muscle easily, but also tend to put on fat. Mesomorphs split the difference.

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Does the Treadmill Accurately Tell You the Amount of Calories You Burn?

If you're working out on a treadmill primarily to lose weight, knowing how many calories you're burning can be an important factor in your workout's success. The digital readout on your treadmill may be a valuable tool in counting those calories -- but if it's inaccurate, it may have the exact opposite effect.

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Calories Burned With Power Sculpt

Power Sculpt is an exercise routine developed and marketed by personal trainer Paul Frediani. The one-hour programs use motions from yoga and Pilates to target core muscles and promote weight loss in a progressive 12-week program.

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Calories Burned on the Jillian Michaels DVD

Though perhaps most famous for her Nintendo Wii and DS interactive fitness games, Jillian Michaels also offers a line of DVDs for home workouts. These videos walk participants through calisthenics, aerobics and resistance exercises for a potentially impressive caloric burn.

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Calories Burned During Arm Exercises

How many calories you burn doing arm exercises depends on what kind of arm exercise you do. Other factors that can effect the caloric burn include your body weight, your level of exertion, even the temperature and your mood at the time.

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Effective Exercises for Morbidly Obese Women

"Morbidly obese" is a descriptive term rather than a specific medical diagnosis. You'll get different definitions depending on who you ask. A good general guideline is that you weigh noticeably more than the minimum weight that would adversely affect your health.

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