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Exercising is the Achilles heel of so many people. They'd rather get a tooth pulled than put on a pair of running shoes and exercise. But exercise is a necessary part of staying fit and losing weight, and it doesn't have to be as bad as you think. Here are a few tips on how to lose weight fast with workouts that may help you get in shape and enjoy doing so.

Do shorter workouts with high intensity exercises. You don't have to work out for hours to get the benefits of your routine, thirty to forty minutes a day can be enough for you. Low intensity exercises take longer, whereas you can benefit more from working harder for a shorter period of time.

Get both cardio and strength training workouts in during the week. You want the most from your routines and alternating the days on which you do one or the other will give you that. Also, your muscles will need rest after each intense strength training session.

When you do cardio, do something you like. Nothing is worse than setting up a cardio routine that you hate and have to force yourself to do. Choose things that you enjoy like running, swimming, biking, even using the treadmill or the rowing machine. The more you like doing it, the more you'll want to do it.

Maximize your time by doing compound exercises. Doing exercises that isolate just one group of muscles is time consuming, especially when you can get the same benefit from something that uses many muscles groups at once. Squats, push-ups, and lunges are just a few that you can choose from. Incorporating them into your workout will give you a great overall workout with a lot fewer exercises.

Don't fall into a rut by doing the same workout over and over, boring yourself and maybe losing interest all together. Mix it up with other workouts, have several workouts that you can switch up every once in a while for variety.

The one thing you must remember, no matter how good your workout is, if you don't set realistic goals, it isn't going to work. You have to be fair to yourself and be realistic about what you are expecting. That weight didn't show up in a day or a week, so you need to give yourself a realistic time frame to experience fat burning. If you don't, you'll set yourself to fail before you begin.