Below is a list of the five most effective fat burning exercises with no equipment. The aim of this article is to show you some things that you can do if you are home or on the road and have no access to equipment. With these exercises, I want to eliminate as many excuses as possible. While it is always possible to come up with new excuses, it is good to have a gameplan to defeat a few of the most common.

Fat Burning Exercise #1 – Mountain Climber

The key for these exercises to be truly good at fat burning is they much be high intensity. You must be able to do these exercises for a short period of time with maximum effort. If you can do these exercises for more than a minute, you are either not pushing hard enough or need to find something more challenging. Try performing a mountain climber for 30 seconds as fast as you can. That will get your heart rate up in a hurry.

Fat Burning Exercise #2 – Burpees

I have yet to meet a person who likes doing burpees. They are very demanding and there is a lot of up and down movement. They will get you breathing very hard, very fast. But they’re done quick and I’ve also yet to meet a person who is not glad they finished a good set of burpees.

Fat Burning Exercise #3 – Spiderman Climb

These are great for the core in addition to being good at elevating the heart rate to high intensity level. Some may find them easier than the previous to exercises, but try doing them as fast as you can and get your knees all the way up outside your arms. Then tell me it isn’t intense!

Fat Burning Exercise #4 – Pushup On and Off Step

For those of you who can’t do regular pushups, simply move your arms onto and off of a step while in pushup position. Go as fast as you can. This exercise places a good demand on the upper body so you are likely to experience muscle failure within 30-60 seconds. This makes it a great addition to a fat burning routine when you have no equipment available.

Fat Burning Exercise #5 – Single-Leg Squat

This exercise is not about getting you out of breath like a lot of the others will, but it still is great for fat loss purposes because it promotes a number of fat burning benefits. You always want to be building small amounts of lean muscle, and the single-leg squat is one of the few exercises that can do this for most people with no equipment. If you can’t do a single-leg squat, do a step-up instead, but make sure you do not push off the ground.

These exercises are great for fat burning because they work at a high intensity. Put together properly, they can increase metabolic rate for several hours even after exercise in completely. Fat loss is all about burning as many calories as possible, and metabolic rate makes up the biggest piece of this puzzle.