Running is a great exercise if you wish to achieve rapid weight loss. It can be uplifting and exhilarating to go running a few times a week and can actually become more of a habit than a chore. But if done incorrectly and without the correct dietary changes such as a low calorie diet then there may actually be no point in going running because your weight could actually go up!

It does take quite a bit of running to burn off enough calories to achieve really rapid weight loss. So if you are planning to run, this must be done regularly and for a long enough period of time to be of benefit. One hundred calories, which are about the same as a medium sized apple will be burned off if you run about one mile. But don’t get tempted to try and run twenty miles in the first day. You will benefit if you build up gradually and then have a set goal to achieve.

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As long as you run efficiently, running can be the best exercise for rapid weight loss. If done incorrectly however, running could possibly cause a reversal of any progress achieved by sticking to a low calorie diet, or even make you put on weight!

A good way to work out how many calories are being burned through running is to multiply the number of kilometres you have run by your body weight in kilos. For each mile that is run, we burn around one hundred calories. So it is very important to stick to a calorie controlled diet while undergoing any sort of running programme. This will help to burn off more fat, because if you use up more calories than you eat, then rapid weight loss is sure to follow.

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