By Oana Pop,
Project Weight Loss Editor
July 29, 2008A recent study shows that women need to have a well planned workout program. This program should be followed five days a week and mustn`t be longer than one hour.
The study was put forward by the University of Pittsburg. The research shows those fifty – five minutes daily represents the minimum needed in order to maintain a ten percent drop in weight.
The number of the women involved in the study was two hundred and one, but only one hundred and seventy had the necessary strength to finish this routine. At the beginning all the participants were sedentary.
They were randomly splitted in four groups based on the amount of calories burned and how intensely they exercised. Their daily meal had to be somewhere between 1,200 – 1,500 calories (including the drinks). Water was the most important element of their diet.
The routine of the participants was tracked by specialists due to face to face talks and telephone conferences. The women were told to enhance their program over five days a week. Each of the women was taught how to monitor their heart beats during the one hour exercise routine.
By the end of the study the women who had done more physical activity lost more than 10 percent of their initial weight. After two years from the study nearly twenty – five percent of the women involved in the study maintained their weight keeping that 10 percent off.
The women who succeeded in maintaining that 10 percent off had done some changes in their leisure activities. They took the stairs instead of the elevator and started running in the park. Even cleaning the house and doing the daily chores turned out to be a great help for them
Every woman should have at least 150 minutes of work out program per week, but apparently in order to hasten weight loss women should take up the double amount: 300 minutes of exercise per week. That is the magic formula which will help keep 10 percent of weight off.
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