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Increasing your metabolism and adjusting your diet is very important whether you are working out or just trying to burn off some fat. Exercises that best help you increase metabolism and therefore burn fat are what are called compound exercises, or multi joint exercises.

Compound exercises are exercises that involve more than one joint. Some examples of a compound exercise are, squats, dead lifts, bench presses, chin ups, and other exercises. These exercises are preferable to single joint exercises like bicep curls because they demand more and use more muscles and energy in performance, stressing your body’s hormonal and nervous system.

People lift the most and they burn the most fat as well as build muscle in these types of exercises. This influences your metabolisms causing it to work at higher levels encouraging lean muscle growth and testosterone increase even while you are resting.

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