Maximum Fat Burning Workout – Workout Wednesday

By: Dominic Zimmermann

Fitness Editor

Dominic is a sports journalist and personal trainer and writes fitness articles for our magazine. He also makes free workout plans for our site.

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Why trust us?

Want a workout that helps you zap fat? You’ve come to the right place! Get ready to work up a real sweat with our maximum fat burning workout plan.

How Do You Burn Fat?

First things first: When you’re burning fat, it’s not in your sweat. You exhale it. That sweat on your skin is just water, and some of it evaporates to help keep you cool. During and after a workout, your body gets its energy from carbs and fat.

If you don’t work out, your body will only draw on its fat reserves when you’re in a calorie deficit. A calorie deficit is what happens when you eat fewer calories than you burn throughout the day.

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6 Essential Fat-Burning Exercises

High Knees

a GIF of a white woman running in place, raising her knees to waist level, as one exercise of the maximum fat burning workout by foodspring — ©foodspring

Difficulty:	Medium
Trains:	Endurance
Important:	Keep your upper body vertical at all times.

Burpee

Difficulty:	Hard
Trains:	Whole-body strength and endurance
Important:	Make sure you keep your back straight when you push up by consciously keeping your abs tight.

Broad Jumps

Difficulty:	Hard
Trains:	Jumping strength, leg muscles, and glutes
Important:	Only jump far enough that you can keep the movement under control.

Skater Jumps

Difficulty:	Hard
Trains:	Knee stability, jumping strength, endurance
Important:	Only jump as far and as fast as you can while keeping the movement under control. Make sure the floor is flat and clean, and your shoes are sturdy, so you won’t slip.

Military Plank

Difficulty:	Medium
Trains:	Pecs, shoulders, and core stability
Important:	Keep your abs tense so your back doesn’t arch.

Jumping Rope

Difficulty:	Easy
Trains:	Endurance
Important:	Find the right length for your rope by standing on the midpoint of the rope. When you do that the grips should reach up to your belly button.

Maximum Fat Burning Workout

Even the best exercises are useless without the right plan. That’s why we’ve turned these six fat-burning exercises into a HIIT fat-burning workout, so you can make the most of your efforts.

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Conclusion

You don’t sweat out fat, you exhale it.
Fat is used as an energy source during exercise.
Without exercise, your body only draws on its fat reserves when it’s in a calorie deficit.

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