Obtaining a HyperMetabolism and An Exercise to KickStart a Healthy Lifestyle, by Sean Burch:

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Thanks for joining me! First, there's a topic I'd like to discuss and then share an exercise from my Hyperfitness program that will help kick-start that healthy lifestyle and tone your body. I am going to tell you how to obtain what I like to call a "HyperMetabolism". In case you don't know what your metabolism is, it's the chemical reactions in your body's cells that converts the food you eat into energy enabling your body to function. Keeping your furnace (metabolism) burning efficiently each day is a vital component to Hyperfitness and living that healthy lifestyle...especially after the age of 30 when metabolism begins to drop by 1 percent per year.

A few quick definitions you should know:

Thermic metabolism takes the calories your body uses to digest food. This usually consists of 10% of daily calorie usage, but can expand if you eat specific foods that will burn more calories while your body is digesting.

Basal metabolism is your resting metabolism, which accounts for 60% of calories exhausted per day.

Activity (Energy) metabolism is the most disregarded element among the overweight, because they don't put it into practice. The solution: Exercise! It can account for 30 percent of the total daily calories you exhaust. That's huge, of course. And it's not just your workout, but also the other activities you do throughout the day - walking or cycling to the market rather than driving, taking the stairs rather than the elevator, standing and moving around the kitchen for an hour while cooking a meal, playing with your child in the yard, taking a 10-minutes stroll after dinner, and so on.

Hot and Spicy foods: I am a fanatic about hot and spicy foods. For Everest I even teamed up with a Canadian hot sauce company to make a special, "fire breathing" sauce for fundraising. Spicy foods can raise metabolic rate by up to 50% for up to 3 hours after a spicy meal.

All Natural, Organic, Whole Foods: These types of foods keep your furnace efficient and running smoothly like a well-oiled machine. Simple and absolute fact: Your body will perform well if you put good things in it.

All-Natural, Organic Caffeine: Teas are a mainstay in my overall Hyperfitness plan. Yerba Mate is my numero uno. This type of "tea" contains antioxidants, amino acids, and vitamins that aid in digestion and can boost basal metabolism. It contains some caffeine, along with catechins, which help move fat molecules through the body faster than other liquids. Other teas such as green tea also stimulate metabolism and carry the good antioxidants your body needs.

Exercise and Increase Muscle: Increase the amount of muscle in your body. For every extra pound of muscle you put on, your body uses around 50 extra calories a day. Simply being aware of this fact - and taking every opportunity to move can make quite a dramatic difference to the amount of calories you burn.

Exercise To Perform

Now for an exercise called the "Donkey Kick". Try and complete at least 10 to 15 repetitions. Get into a push-up position, with knees slightly bent and body aligned parallel to floor. As quickly as you can, thrust your hips in the air as you try to kick your butt with both heels. Land back in push-up position. This move works the core, shoulders, hamstrings and quadriceps.

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