Women's Fitness

BUILD MUSCLE, BURN FAT

Q When it comes to strength training, what are the best exercises for fat loss?

Joey Bull says: ‘Finding exercises that increase muscle mass and demand lots of calories is the best way to train for many reasons. For instance, jumping jacks may raise the heart rate and burn calories, but what long-term benefit for muscle tissue do they have? The effort level needs to be far more significant. To burn energy, we need to maximise how much we exert, but still make it sustainable.

‘Pick moves that use many muscles at

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