Boot Camp: Fitness Tips

KUSA - Peak Physique personal trainer Shannon Sidwell gives some tips when it comes to cardio and weightloss. Create your own boot camp at home!

Fitness Tips from Shannon Sidwell:

For a boot camp program that catches fat in the crossfire, we emphasize doing both resistance training and cardiovascular work.

Cardiovascular exercise does the most to burn fat during exercise. Cardiovascular exercise, like running or biking, quickly depletes the energy stores that muscles prefer and forces them to burn fat for energy. Cardiovascular exercise also helps to improve the capacity of your heart and lungs to pump blood and deliver oxygen to all of your body.

During Boot Camp we will be performing lots of cardio drills, in addition to a solid cardio warm-up.

Resistance training burns less fat during exercise compared to cardiovascular exercise, but it has a longer lasting fat burning effect on the body.

An increase in metabolism from resistance training can last for hours, and resistance training increases muscle size and density, which causes the muscle to burn more calories every time it's used. Muscle growth results in a more or less permanent increase in calorie consumption, which is essential to long term fat loss.

Any good workout program should include both forms of exercise.

Fore more information on Shannon's Boot Camp with her partner Autumn call (303) 704-1037. The boot camp happens Monday and Thursday nights from 6 to 7 p.m. and is located at Peak Physique on Expo (3915 E. Exposition Ave.)

Several other fitness centers offer similar boot camps. For a list of those go to: http://fitness-centers-in-denver-co.denveryellowpagesltd.com/