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Looking to get your metabolism pumping and look great in your swim wear? These five tips will greatly improve your workouts and spark your metabolism. Check out these tips because they could put you in the spotlight.

Free Weight and Cable Exercises

Compared to weight machines, free weights and cable movements will require more skill, exert more energy, and will burn more calories. It is more difficult to balance weights and to coordinate muscles when using free weights or cables, which will require more energy, thus it will burn more calories. By learning how to balance and stabilize free-weights or cables, you are working more muscles and exerting more energy.

Biggest Bank for your Buck!

Focusing on extremely detailed exercises require a lot of time and not a lot of result. Concentrate on exercises that will give you the biggest bang for your buck.

Repitions Range

If you are looking to gain mass (muscle gain) you should roughly stay between 8-11 reps and lift heavier weight. How many sets you do depends on how tired you get and how much you can take. If your goal is to achieve lean body mass, then you should increase you reps to 10-14 and lift less weight. Again, the amount of sets you do depends on your body.

Rest Only 30 to 60 seconds between sets

Keeping rest periods less than one minute allows you to stay focused better and finish the task that is at hand. It also forces your muscles to recover quicker between sets.

Will Cardio do it all?

Cardiovascular exercise helps to decrease the amount of calories taken in, but it is only a temporary solution. Combining strength training along with cardio exercise you will increase the amount of calories burned in a day, and add muscle which will burn calories while you’re lying on the couch!