At the beginning of every New Year, thousands vow to make the necessary changes in their diets and lifestyles to lose weight. The majority of people neglect the role of regular exercise to help shed the pounds in pursuit of their ideal body weight. Exercise can seem daunting and the sheer amount of time and effort turns many off. But by making exercise exciting, reasonable, and adding key products such as AMPED™ Power, anyone can use exercise as a weight-loss tool.

Human beings are made to be active, and exercise should be part of every lifestyle. Many people do not realize that exercise can be so many other things besides running on the treadmill or doing hours of weights. The key to exercise is finding something that you enjoy and can continue doing. Exercise can take the form of hiking with friends, bike riding, exercise classes, or even pushing a sled and flipping tires. Everyone can find something they can enjoy.

To get good exercise, you don’t have to train yourself into the ground. There’s no need to perform endless cardiovascular sessions early in the morning or lift the heaviest weights in the gym. The current U.S. guidelines for aerobic activity suggest that all individuals should perform is at least 150 minutes a week of moderate physical activity (1).

However, if you perform vigorous exercise, you may even get away with less. For example, in a recent study, researchers investigated the minimal amount of exercise needed to offer a significant benefit toward health (2). Specifically, the study looked at the dose-response relationship between running and overall mortality. The researchers found that just a five-minute run generates the same benefits as a 15-minute walk, and a 25-minute run is equivalent to a 105-minute walk.

The study suggests that by simply devoting 15 minutes of your time every day to vigorous exercise like running, rowing, or weight lifting, you can reap the same health benefits from spending hours at the gym.

AMPED Power is a supplement that can help solve the common problem that many face when they first start exercising—a lack of energy, focus, and the right fuel to maximize their performance. The pre-workout period is a crucial time to not only supply the right nutrients to boost the intensity of training, but also to offer a natural, safe option to increase power and strength.

With a moderate and safe dose of creatine monohydrate, AMPED Power offers a powerful training boost by providing muscles with the most readily available form of energy in the body, adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. By saturating your muscles with ATP, you can increase power and strength while reducing fatigue.

The AMPED Power formula contains Nitrosigine®* to support blood flow to those tissues of the body essential for optimal performance, such as muscles, the circulatory system, and the brain. The addition of Nitrosigine® in AMPED Power is exclusive to Isagenix. Its inclusion can support focus and maximize delivery of nutrients to working muscles, letting you work longer and harder.

As a complement to both creatine and Nitrosigine®, AMPED Power also adds a well-studied dose of L-citrulline in two forms for maximum bioavailability. Citrulline acts as a support for blood flow to muscles, but can also work to activate muscle protein synthesis pathways.

This new year, commit to a lifestyle change so that you won’t have to think about it in 2017. Be sensible with exercise and make it a part of your regular routine. Short, vigorous exercise can save you time, energy, and still impart health and weight-loss. Make the most of each workout with AMPED Power for a clean, safe boost to your training so you can get moving towards your fitness goals.

*Nitrosigine® is a registered trademark of Nutrition 21, LLC and is patent protected.

References

  1. Lavie, C.J., Arena, R., Swift, D.L. et al. Exercise and the cardiovascular system: clinical science and cardiovascular outcomes. Circ Res. 2015; 117: 207–219
  2. Lavie CJ, Lee DC, Sui X, Arena R, O’Keefe JH, Church TS, Milani RV & Blair SN. Effects of Running on Chronic Diseases and Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality. Mayo Clin Proc. 2015 Nov; 90(11):1541-52.