How to Lose Weight Fast

Drop Weight Faster

Incorporate these five activities into your downtime to increase energy, reduce soreness, and drop weight faster
By Jayme Moye womenshealth
 

A Hotter Body No Sweat

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As soon as you slip off your sneakers after a workout, your body starts repairing the "damage" you did to your muscles. In fact, it's actually this recovery process—not exercise itself—that makes you stronger and leaner, says Stacy Sims, PhD, an exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist at the Stanford School of Medicine's Prevention-Research Center in Palo Alto, California. (Search: How often should I exercise?) "To speed your results, research shows that what you do when you're not exercising is nearly as important as the workout itself," she says. Get on the fast track with these minimum-effort moves.

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