text: Research has shown that just fifteen minutes of brisk walking burns excess calories, but it can also ramp up a person's metabolism for several hours after they have finished their walk. This is an area of exercise where a person can get more than they originally bargained for, so it is a element a person looking to lose more weight should consider. For those who believe working out with weights is best, there are benefits to that type of program too. Combining brisk movements and working out with weights can be good when choosing an exercise program.
  While it is important to keep a body burning as many calories during the day as possible, walking or other brisk aerobic exercise is not the only way to help the body lose excess weight. Lifting or pushing against weights has benefits that will help. Muscle mass is heavier than fat, so it might not originally appear a person is doing well, but the benefits can outstrip their fears.
  Muscles that have been exercising burn more calories throughout the day, so their heaviness has a compensation for those who want to trim down. Each movement of the body after working several muscle groups during exercise can help a person lose excess mass for days or even weeks into the future, so this is the compensation they might consider helpful when choosing their new program. It is a way to burn calories without investing excess time, and ramping up the metabolism with it can help even more.
  Choosing the best exercises for a person's goal is a good way to look at any program, and those seeking to get rid of mass that has added up over the years should consider combining movement and weights. The benefits can last far into the day, and they might eventually find that losing what they did not want will take less time than they had planned.