Are you looking to shed pounds, tone up, build muscle or become more active? Here are some tips from Men’s Health on how to start and stay on your fitness course course.

A Bigger Challenge for Better Results

1. If you want to mimic road running on a treadmill, raise the incline to 1 percent before starting your run. Researchers found that this is the degree of treadmill elevation that most closely approximates running outdoors on the road.

2. You’ll get better and faster results if you concentrate on one goal at a time. That’s because your muscles need extra calories to grow, but your gut needs fewer calories to shrink. So if you try to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time, you won’t do either effectively. If you’re sedentary, the best strategy is to lose fat first, then add muscle.

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