NEWSLETTER
I believe cardio can assist you in dropping body fat and becoming healthy if done correctly ACCOMPANIED by a correct meal and resistance{weights} exercise routine. Yet why does everyone run to the cardio and make it their most important thing they do in the gym. CARDIO DOES NOT CUT YOU UP AND MAKE YOU LEAN AND HEALTHY, if it were true than all the people pounding that treadmill for an hour at a clip would have body fat levels under 5%. Cardio will assist you in burning calories but will have a very small impact on your health and physique. The bottom line is if you want to be a truly healthy person with a sexy physique YOU MUST learn how to eat CORRECTLY. Many people think they know how to eat healthy but they really have no clue. Reducing fat intake is absolutely not the way, all that will do is lower your testosterone levels in result will cause you to lose muscle and gain belly fat. Learning how to eat correctly not only requires correct food selection but also correct timing of your foods. A baked potato is a great natural food but if your goal is strictly fat loss consuming this after 6:00pm is not conducive to dropping body fat, unless it's a post workout meal. Eating correctly is just so important, what you eat effects all of these
How do I know what I say is true? Every year I get my body fat under 4% during the spring and summer and I get it done with less than 90 minutes of cardio a week. I have done it without any cardio but at my age 41 it gets a little tougher to really get lean so in the past couple years I usually perform 45-60 minutes total a week of high intensity sprints for my cardio. Many people say I need to do cardio first to drop the fat then concentrate on the muscle after I drop a few lbs. This theory couldn't be more wrong. If you haven't learned by now that "intense" resistance training is FAR superior compared to long duration aerobics or steady-state cardiovascular exercise in terms of TOTAL caloric expenditure in a 24-48 hour period, than you shouldn't be surprised that you still have the "skinny-fat" look. It's quite the paradox, because if we compared a 45-minute cardio session to a 45 minute resistance training session, you're apt to burn more calories minute-to-minute doing cardio than you are lifting weights. That's why most people are under the assumption that cardio burns more calories overall and is the most efficient approach to fat loss (along with restricting calories drastically too low). However, what many trainees don't take into consideration is the calories you burn AFTER you train. What is often neglected is the fact that you have to look at total caloric expenditure in a 24 hour period, NOT just what you do while at the gym. How many calories you burn during a training session plays a small role compared to the total number of calories you burn in the 24-48 hours afterwards. In one study, a group of people did a sample full-body workout consisting of four sets of ten repetitions and another group did nothing but steady-Slow cardio. Both group's energy expenditure was monitored during the workout and over the next 48 hours. The steady-slow group did expend slightly more calories in the 45-minute span compared to the resistance-training group. However, over the next 48 hours the resistance training group burned an ADDITIONAL 700 calories above baseline in addition to what they burned in the workout (the steady slow cardio group only burned 50 extra calories for the 24 hours after the session) How do you like dem apples?
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