Many experts agree that the best way to lose weight quickly and effectively is to combine healthy eating with exercise. What you should know is that not all exercises are the same. There are exercises that are more effective than others to burn fat. The mistake most people make is that they start an exercise routine without much thought. If you want to have a fat loss workout, you should incorporate more of these effective fat burning exercise routines.

Conventional health and fitness wisdom tells us that the best weight training to shed fat is made up of long minutes of cardio. This means at least 30 minutes of jogging or exercising on the treadmill, stepper, bicycle, or rowing machine. The supposed principle behind long cardio training is that it takes the body at least 30 minutes before it can access stored body fat.

Recently, there has been something of a paradigm shift in the way that experts define what an exercise to lose fat is. The new belief is that multi-minute resistance workouts are as effective or more effective at shedding and burning fat than prolonged cardio workouts. For the body to start burning fat, experts now believe that it must reach and maintain a certain heart rate. This is why most trainers now advocate the use of heart rate monitors.

Additionally, compound movements during training are believed to be more effective than isolated muscle movements for burning fat. This means that exercises like lunges and squats that use multiple muscles are better at burning fat than isolated exercises like curls that use only one set of muscles. Resistance workouts also need to be done in a circuit or super fit format to be effective in burning fat.

So if you want to lose weight, forget about the treadmill. Put the weight on and start pumping iron now for a real fat shedding workout.