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Are you attempting real hard to lose weight? Giving it your best shot? Following all the rules? Then I bet you do a great deal of good quality cardio exercise, don’t you? If you’re in truth committed, you might even put in an hour each day! Gotta burn up those calories. Gotta stay in the fat-burning zone.
But what if ….
I mean, what if it’s all just make-believe?
What if it’s not one thing but a myth …
That cardio is the best exercise for weight loss, that is. Could that be possible? Sounds kinda crazy, doesn’t it? I mean, ‘they’ have been telling us for years that cardio burns fat.
So why is it then that the persons I’ve watched day after day, after week, after month, after year on the treadmills do not one thing but gain weight? Why is it that so numerous people who walk each day, or even carry out higher intensity cardio each day, just can’t seem to slim down? And why is that when I dramatically slashed the amount of cardio performed by myself and my clients, the weight came off with far dandier ease?
Because the cardio myth just ain’t true, that’s why.
Here’s what the latest exploration and clinical proof is telling us in regards to exercise for fat loss:
- While cardio exercise may support you to lose weight in the short-term (coming from a background of little or no activity), these effects soon taper off
- This is because cardio exercise is repetitious by nature, and your body is conditioned to adjust speedily to repetitious movement. After all, why waste energy (that means burn fat) on something that requires a comparatively low level of functional movement? And no, it doesn’t matter that cardio puts you in the ‘fat-burning zone!’ It’s all regarding what your body does after the event …
- As a result, the only way to proceed the fat loss response from cardio exercise is to carry out more outstanding and dandier amounts of the stuff
- Not only is this not practical, it in truth backfires on you in the end anyway
- You see, regular bouts of repetitious cardio in truth elicit a fat-storing response in your hormonal system. This is because evolution has programmed your body to store fat in times of crisis – and long-duration cardio is viewed as just that. In nature, you’d only be on the move for a amount of time of time if you had a threat to your survival: to your feed source, your safety, or your shelter. So it would be primary to store fat faster.
Does that make sense? I’m thinking that no matter how much of a cardio queen – or king – you are (hey, I’ve been there, I know it’s hard to give up on), you’ve still got to confess there’s something to what I’m saying.
So WHAT will have to you do instead?
— Perform functional movements like squatting, lunging, bending, pulling, pushing, or twisting
— Force continual adaptation and an increased fat-burning response by combining these movements in dissimilar ways, and with varying loads or added stimulus. See a good personal trainer – such as a Chek trainer – for more selective information on this. Or see my Functional Fitness article on this site.
— Okay, so if I’m wholly technical with regards to it, it’s not 100% true that cardio exercise is no good for weight loss. Some approaches to cardio may be a utile addition to your weights or functional training. The side salad to the meat and veg, so to speak. But I’m not talking regarding popular cardio training. Have you heard of interval training? This is a great method for fitness and fat loss, when combined with an effective weights or functional motion pattern. An example of interval training would be to set apart no more than 20 minutes wherein you run one minute as fast as you can, then walk or jog a minute to recover.
— Use all your free time (from not having to do so much cardio) to exploration what YOUR body genuinely needs.
Try the following for starters:
- A consultation with a good Personal Trainer
- Read the Metabolic Typing Diet, by William W. Wolcott and Trish Fahey and figure out how to optimise weight loss by eating right for your body. Visit my internetsite for further info on Metabolic Typing consultations.
- Read ‘How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy’ by Paul Chek, H.H.P and learn how to do, well, just what the title says
- If you actually want to get stuck into the details of what I’ve just spoken when it comes to (and one my best roots for this article), pick up a copy of ‘Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and your Survival’, by Bent Formby. It’s one of my favourites!
Cardio for weight loss: it’s not the solution. That’s a fact. The question is – are you more than willing to take a leap of faith and discover it for yourself?
Life is Now: Don’t waste yours on the treadmill.
Oh – and Press Play:
Kat
In this extended version of her Boot Camp workout, the energetic Tracey Mallet and her crew (appropriately attired in military-style clothes) demonstrate a three-part routine that is unquestionably not for new recruits to exercise. The basi workout mixes the chasses and sautés of aerobic dance, a little Tae Kwon Do, and the jumping jacks and push-ups of military basic training. (“Your pain, your gain,” she announces for the duration of the excruciating second set of push-ups.) Workout 2 begins with galore Tai Chi and then alternates kickboxing with hand-weight work. The final procedure combines the jumps of the basi with the “martial dance” of the second. Mallet has an unflagging exuberance and a taste for potpourri that makes this workout a long way from dull. However, with drums pounding in the background and jumps galore, this 48-minute workout is unquestionably for the young or the young-at-heart-and-knee-joints. –Kimberly Heinrichs
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
 Good, solid workout
By A
I actually enjoyed this workout. Although I consider myself in magnificent shape, I get effortlessly frustrated with most areobic videos because they are very “dancey.” I just want to veg-out and sweat like crazy when I am working out, rather than pay attention to dancy little moves that make me feel like a clutz and don’t get my heart rate up. This work out is very much like good old-fashioned calisthenics: basic moves, easy to follow and physically challenging. The pace is brisk and she never dwells very long on one exercise, which helps keep boredom at bay.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Good intermediate, high-impact workout
By Online Shopper
This is a good workout for humans who know how to stretch, warm-up, and cool down on their own. These workouts have minimal warm-up and stretching, then go right into the meat of the aerobics. Most of the routines are high impact–lots of jumping. Don’t buy this if you have any knee trouble. An intermediate exerciser will want to do all 3 workouts back to back to get a good workout. Having 3 independent 15 minute segments makes short workouts convenient. I have 20 aerobic and toning tapes and this style is different, which combats boredom. The motion style variations keep the workout interesting, but if you prefer dance-move workouts or ordinary music beats, this isn’t the tape for you. It’s more of a good gym class than a night club. The other reviews accurately describe the video format and contents.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
eclectic and fun workout video
By Shannon B Davis
I purchased this video because of the interesting assortment it offered. Three 20-minute workouts consisting of boot camp moves (pushups, jump rope, etc), kickboxing, tai chi, and dance. I have run through the video once, doing all three workouts.
The instructor has a cute English accent and gives general cues. The set was non-distracting and the background exercisers almost flawless. The production quality of this DVD is very good.
Buyers oftentimes want to know “how easy is this video?” Cardiovascularly, it’s a challenge. However, the choreography is rather easy to pick up. There is a great deal of repetition of the sequences, and I was capable to make it through all three segments without any moments of frustration. That said, there is LOTS of repitition. Segment 3 feels like deja-vu of segment 1.
Cardio Boot Camp made this veteran exerciser sweat. Although the warmups at the beginning of each segment did fetch down my heart rate, there were a great deal of high-intensity segments. Plyometrics were used, increasing power and calorie burn. There were likewise short segments of strength-training. 3-pound weights are commended with this video, but I applied a Go-Fit rubber tube instead. The weight-lifting segments often use multiple body parts, like doing lunges while also doing shoulder exercises. This kept my heart rate up as I strength-trained.
The standard jumping and squats could be hard on a great deal of people’s knees, altho my knees didn’t complain for the duration of this video (and they ordinarily do hurt). On the other hand, I did experience a lot of back pain for the original time. This is unquestionably a high-intensity video and is commended for fit humans with healthful joints.
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