How do you get a faster metabolism?

How do you get a faster metabolism?

• ive heard all sorts of things.. like eating small meals at least 4 times a day.. and drinking a lot of water. whats the real deal? how do you get a faster metabolism?

• Answer:

  Your metabolism is influenced by three things - Exercise, digestion and energy used in normal body functions. Increasing your metabolism from exercise is pretty self explanatory. Exercise uses up energy and raises your metabolic requirements. To increase your metabolism from food, split your meals into 6 or 7 times a day and ensure you include a protein in each meal. This is called the thermic affect of food and your body burns up more energy digesting. Lastly your normal body functions - this is called rmr or resting metabolic rate. You can influence it by doing anaerobic types of training like interval training or hiit. This training taps energy from your muscles called glycogen. Your body spends hours replacing this and needs energy to do this, so your rmr is raised from 24 to 40 hours after your training. Long term increases in your metabolism can also be created with interval training and resistance training. Bigger muscles help and interval training creates adaptations to your body where it will rather send energy to be burnt up by your muscles rather than stored in your fat cells