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Weight loss
Losing weight requires a calorie deficit, meaning you must burn more calories than you eat in a given time frame, typically broken down into calories per day.
Although effective exercise programs can certainly speed up your weight loss, it’s important to remember that long-term weight management requires sustaining healthy habits over time.
This includes eating a variety of whole foods, drinking enough water, and ensuring you get enough sleep and manage stress.
That said, research shows that exercise plays an important role in weight loss.
PTG provides a weekly workout plan for weight loss which is a great way to kick-start your journey toward better health or add more variety to your workouts if you already consistently exercise.
PTG’s program is based around three types of training:
- upper and lower body strength training
- interval training/conditioning
- low intensity cardio
The strength training will help you build muscle and strength that you can apply to your interval training.
Furthermore, the added muscle will increase your metabolism over time, meaning you’ll burn more calories at rest just to sustain yourself, which can contribute to the calorie deficit required for weight loss.
Interval training will provide a massive metabolic boost immediately after your workout. Interval training involves brief periods of high intensity exercise followed by relatively short rest periods.
This method keeps your heart rate elevated throughout the workout, giving you aerobic benefits while maintaining sufficient intensity to stoke your metabolic fire.
Finally, low intensity cardio, such as walking, jogging, swimming, or cycling, gives you a slight bump in your daily calorie burn and allows you to exercise while recovering from the more intense strength and interval training.
You can perform an hour or more of cardio, but even just 20 minutes is sufficient.
Each workout should take roughly 20–22 minutes, allowing you to fit the program into a busy schedule.
Weekly, this workout structure helps target weight loss on all fronts, through both daily calorie burn and increasing your metabolism over time.