Easy Fat Burn

As I mentioned in The Truth About Cardio – Part I, I signed up for Rob Poulos’ Fat Burning Furnace newsletter to give me some good pointers. Here’s the second installment from his newsletter. You can sign up for his newsletter below.

Here’s what Rob says:

In the last newsletter, I talked about the truth about long duration frequent cardio or aerobic exercise for fat loss, fitness, and health. What I concluded was that this type of exercise can actually give you the exact opposite results you’re after. Here’s a quick recap why:

With this type of exercise, your body will be burning stored body fat as its primary source for fuel. While this may sound good, its actually bad news. What happens after the workout is far more important than what happens during the workout. After this type of workout is over, your body responds by holding on tightly to its stored body fat so that it’s available the very next time you perform this exercise.

From a health perspective, this type of cardio can actually reduce your body’s natural ability to deal with stress (or life, as I like to call it!).  You see, long duration moderate intensity exercise conditions your body and cardiovascular system to be efficient. And efficiency means a smaller everything…heart, lungs, muscles, etc.

In effect, you are shrinking the core elements of your body’s powerhouse, and while it may get better at jogging for hours at a time, when faced with something truly stressful, you’ll be outmatched and in big trouble. How often does life require you to continuously jog for great distances? That’s right, almost never.

Now, a lot of experts out there have discovered that if you perform cardio with intervals (where you alternate short burst of high intensity with low intensity) is far better for fat loss and actually quite powerful and efficient. And normally I’d recommend it, but I don’t. Let’s talk about why that is.

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The Truth about Cardio – Part I

I got off to a rocky start on this so-called adventure. But… I will not be deterred! I signed up for Rob Poulos’ Fat Burning Furnace newsletter to give me some good pointers. This email seemed so radical to me, but in a strange way, made lots of sense. I plan on following his advice. Let me know what you think!

Here’s what came the other day to my email box:

If you’ve read any of my past newsletters or articles regarding exercise and its role in burning fat and getting healthy, you probably already know that I don’t recommend performing cardio or aerobics as your primary exercise method.

And I’m not only talking about traditional moderately paced long duration cardio, but that interval cardio stuff too. I’m not saying interval cardio doesn’t work, it does, and I’ll talk about that a bit later. But even still, I have a lot of people angry at me… in fact I get emails almost every day from people who think I’m nuts for telling them they don’t have to perform exclusive cardio of any kind.

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