To burn fat more efficiently, you need to build up your muscles. With good, strong muscles in place, you'll not just feel better - your metabolism will run higher and burn more calories.

To build muscle, high intensity, not long duration exercise is needed. Just walking for hours on a treadmill lacks the intensity necessary for efficient burning of body fat.

It's this high intensity that's going to let you get a full, fat-burning workout done in just 12 minutes. See, you'll burn some calories during that 12 minutes, but you'll burn a lot more during the following 24 hours.

Muscle burns a lot of calories. Why? Because your body is working away - even when you're sitting - building new muscle fibers and repairing old ones. All of this activity burns a lot of energy. For every pound of muscle that you put on, your body will burn an extra 40-50 calories a day.

Think about this: muscle is dense - a a pound of muscle takes up less space that a pound of flabby fat. Plus, it will look fabulous. A nice, firm body will look fit and fabulous.

To burn fat, you'll need to do your exercises in a short-duration, high intensity workout. This is how you can get fit and fabulous in just 12 minutes. You won't be wasting hours in some low-intensity exercise like treadmill plodding.

Set yourself to three day when you will exercise. Whether it's Monday, Wednesday, Friday - or any other combination that fits your calendar - be sure to get in your 3 times a week. After all, it's only 12 minutes a day!.

You'll need very little equipment and you can do your exercise routines nearly anywhere you wish.

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Stop wasting all your spare time plodding away on a treadmill... going nowhere. Isn't it time to started on the path to fit and fabulous ... and gain health and fitness in just 12 minutes a day!This and other unique content fitness articles are available with free reprint rights.