Exercising to lose weight means sticking to a frequent cardio routine that burns calories. Fat burn happens in your body when you create a calorie deficit between the numbers of calories you use for energy and the number you intake through food. If you live in a cold climate or in a city center, outside exercises may be unrealistic, but there are many indoor exercises you can do to lose weight.
Circuit Training
Circuit training classes are often available at gyms, or you can design your own. Circuit training is simply a series of work stations, each with a different exercise, whether its resistance exercises, free weights or a cardio exercise, for example. You spend a short period, such as a minute or one set, at each station before moving on to the next. Normally a circuit has 12 stations, notes IDEA Heath and Fitness Association.
HIIT
Hyper-intensity interval training, or HIT, is a fat-burning tactic you can apply to your favorite form of indoor cardio. Intersperse your cardio session with short intervals of high-intensity work. For example, exercise for one minute at maximum intensity and then two minutes at 50-percent intensity. This can be applied on the treadmill, in the pool, in the weight room and elsewhere.
Treadmill Running
Running at a speed of 8 mph for one hour is the most efficient fat burner on an extensive list of exercises provided by the MayoClinic.com. People weighing 160, 200 and 240 lbs. can look forward to losing 986, 1,229 and 1,472 calories per session, respectively. Calorie burn is dependent on your fitness level and the effect of the intensity of running at 8 mph.
Indoor Sports
Many indoor sports and fitness hobbies are available to help you lose weight. Swimming, dancing, aerobics, basketball, volleyball, ice skating and jumping rope are all very effective calorie-burning activities, which also can be performed indoors. Taking up an enjoyable fitness hobby also means removing the need for constant willpower to get yourself to the gym and perform an arduous workout.
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