6 Smart Ways Trainers Switch Up Their Exercise Routine When They Want to Lose Weight

When exercise is a part of your weight-loss plan, you’ve got to have a strategy.

To ensure that each sweat session is actually boosting your results, “You have to adjust your workout to fit your goal,” says Baltimore-based strength coach and trainer Erica Suter, C.S.C.S.

“Fat loss is a science, not just a cluster of random exercises like burpees, box jumps, and bear crawls,” says Suter. You have to incorporate exercises that burn the most calories, build the most muscle, and are easy to progress with more weight, she says.

To help you plan your next fat torching sweat sesh, we asked a few of our go-to trainers exactly how they change their gym routines to crush their personal weight-loss goals.

Here’s how they do it.