Are you wondering what exercises will help you lose 15 pounds quickly? Here's the scoop on what workouts will burn the fat off your belly, hips, thighs and keep it off.
#3 Exercise to Help Lose 15 Pounds: Walking Lunges With Hand & Ankle Weights
Walking lunges are simply regular lunges except you keep walking forward as you lunge instead of returning your foot to where it started. Simply lunge forward with your right foot, let your knee bend to a 90 degree angle, then push off your left ankle to make another step/lunge forward.
Why this exercise will help you burn fat quickly:
Walking lunges use your glutes and legs, some of the biggest muscle groups in your body. To make this exercise an even better fat-burner, use ankle and arm weights. You can lift your arms out to your sides to work your arms and shoulders while you work your lower body. Super fat burner!
#2 Exercise to Help Lose 15 Pounds: Walking
That's right. Plain old walking. Work your way up to 45 to 60 minutes per day of walking. Walk at work on your lunch break. Walk after dinner with your kids. Walk all the darn time! It improves your mood, reduces depression, helps you sleep at night...okay, what you really care about is how well it burns fat, right? Okay, well walking and other low-impact cardio exercises prefer to burn fat as a fuel because you're not working out hard. That gives the body the extra time it needs to break down fat instead of having to go straight for glycogen (carbs).
A Note About the Fat-Burning Zone:
Make sure you stay in the fat-burning heart rate zone by using a heart rate monitor while you do any workout. These can also calculate the calories you burn during each session. See my recommended heart rate monitors and ankle/wrist weights below.
#1 Exercise to Help Lose 15 Pounds: (You Fill in the Blank)
Yep. The best exercise to help you lose those nasty 15 pounds is the one you like the best. After all, it's the only one you'll like, maybe even love which means you'll actually do it enough to lose weight. Maybe it's not an exerise you like best but a setting (the gym or home). Maybe it's the company or social aspect (workout buddy or class). Whatever it is, do what you like and your 15 pounds will be gone before you know it.
Get the pounds off as fast and safely as possible. Then keep them off for good!