Cardio is a Joke for Fat Burning

Strong statement, I know, but I really believe that cardio for fat loss is a joke. Although, not a very funny one…

One woman wrote, “I started out doing 5 hours of cardio per week. No results. So I upped it to 7 hours per week. Still nothing. Do you suggest I do more? I’m worried if I use your program, I won’t get any results because you don’t even have an hour of interval cardio per week. Please help!”

And from a gentleman on the Men’s Health forum, “I took up running and didn’t take up stretching until it was almost to late and almost destroyed a knee. What happened was that my IT bands got really tight and my inner quads didn’t gain any strength so my knee cap got pulled out of place. I had an MRI done on my knee and have found that my knee cap has bruised my femur. ”

Cardio horror stories are a dime-a-dozen. So here’s the bottom line on cardio…

Long slow aerobic training remains the biggest practical joke in fitness. Marathon running for the average overweight person? Why don’t you just tell someone to go play in traffic…oh wait, that’s exactly what they are doing - all while crushing their joints with excess weight and repetitive pounding.

If you do long, slow cardio, its only a matter of time before you end up in a physiotherapist’s office with all the others that do too much of the same thing…whether its running or spin classes, overuse injuries are far too common in the cardio world.   After all, what’s easier to overdo, total body strength training done 3 times per week for 20 minutes, or the same cardio activity done for 6-9 hours per week?

Heck, I once knew a physiotherapist who was so addicted to spin classes that she had overuse injuries that prevented her from walking normally! Physio, heal thyself!

What a joke that cardio is…

But cardio fits our “more is better” mentality, doesn’t it? We go right from a 3000 calorie meal at the Outback Steakhouse to our 60 minute cardio confessional sessions on the elliptical. More, more, more, more. And yet get less results?

There is a better way.

Take a peek at the weight room when you are in a gym. Then compare the bodies there to the bodies on the elliptical. You’ll find the sculpted, toned physiques lifting dumbells and doing pushups, and the plump, “never changing physiques” spinning their tires over on the cardio equipment.

No matter what the city, no matter where the gym, its the same old story.

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Cardio: Circuit Training vs. Slow, Excruciatingly, Boring Cardio

Aerobic exercise gets all the glory when it comes to increasing fitness, but for beginners, you can get a lot more “bang for your fitness buck” by using circuit training instead of long, slow boring cardio. Brazilian researchers assigned subjects to a 12-week program of cardio only, or total-body circuit training only. Both groups exercised for 35 minutes, 3 times per week.At the end of the study, both groups increased their aerobic fitness by 4%. In addition, both groups also increased their leg strength by 6%. However, only the circuit training group increased their upper body strength.So if you are a beginner, your best bet for maximum gains in fitness is to use a total-body circuit training program if you are limited in the amount of time you can commit to a workout program.  Hands down, short burst resistance training workouts done with short rest periods between exercises gives you more bang for your buck.So cancel your subscription to People magazine, because you don’t need to spend hours on the elliptical machine in order to “get fit”.

When you order the fat burning workout package from Turbulence Training, you also get a three-month trial TT membership. And one of the many benefits of a TT Membership is that you get access to the TT workout of the month. For February, I put together a TT Circuit Workout. All TT Members can download this workout and watch the exercise video on the site. And they are loving it! “Craig, just wanted to let you know the new workout you posted this month is awesome and I absolutely love it. I was starting to get into the winter slump a bit but this has rejuvenated my workouts. Thanks!”
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Cardio-Interval Training

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Hopefully this video answers a lot of your questions about the right type of “cardio” for fat loss.

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 Interval TrainingThis is Craig Ballantyne from TurbulenceTraining and TTmembers.  I wanted to take this time to explain the interval training for fat loss portion of the program.  Because it is very important for fat loss, but it is also a little bit complicated for people that have not done interval training before.

Now generally I recomment that people use the bike for interval training.  A stationary bike is nice and easy because you can transition between hard and easy exercise quite simply.  And also you don’t have worry about falling off a treadmill. You don’t have to worry about advanced sprinting.  You’ll need to actually warm up for sprinting.  With a bike it’s very simple. It allows you to do a lot of work, by increasing the resistance, and taking it off quite easily. Let me show you an example using the treadmill for interval training.

What I like people to do is to do interval training right after their bodywieght circuit.  If you aren’t fit enough, you can do interval training, or cardio training on off days instead.  We do interval training 3 days per week. So it fits in nicely right after the strength training cricuits, or other bodyweight workouts that you do later on in the phase. If you want to do it on other days, that is fine as well.  But make sure you take full day of rest each week.  So we are going to do a couple of the interval workouts from the preparation phase in this next segment. Click on the above video to watch the entire Interval Training for Fat Loss Video.

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Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for
Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fatloss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitnessmagazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat,gain muscle , and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. Here’s to 2008 being your best year ever. If there is anything I can do to help you out, don’t hesitate to ask. Thanks so much for your support!2008 is going to be a heck of a year,Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS Author, Turbulence Training

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Interval Training

Interval Training

Interval TrainingThis is Craig Ballantyne from Turbulence Training and TTmembers. I wanted to take this time to explain the interval training for fat loss portion of the program. Because it is very important for fat loss, but it is also a little bit complicated for people that have not done interval training before. Now generally I recomment that people use the bike for interval training. A stationary bike is nice and easy because you can transition between hard and easy exercise quite simply. And also you don’t have worry about falling off a treadmill. You don’t have to worry about advanced sprinting. You’ll need to actually warm up for sprinting. With a bike it’s very simple. It allows you to do a lot of work, by increasing the resistance, and taking it off quite easily.Let me show you an example using the treadmill for interval training.What I like people to do is to do interval training right after their bodywieght circuit. If you aren’t fit enough, you can do interval training, or cardio training on off days instead. We do interval training 3 days per week. So it fits in nicely right after the strength training cricuits, or other bodyweight workouts that you do later on in the phase. If you want to do it on other days, that is fine as well. But make sure you take full day of rest each week. So we are going to do a couple of the interval workouts from the preparation phase in this next segment.Click on the above video to watch the entire Interval Training for Fat Loss Video.About the

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Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for
Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fatloss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitnessmagazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat,
gain muscle , and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit Turbulence Training

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Interval Training: High Intensity

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This is Craig Ballantyne from TurbulenceTraining and TTmembers Today we are going to cover High Intensity Interval Training for fat loss . You’ve probably heard of Intensity Interval Training because it’s been used in a lot of programs these days for fat loss cause smart trainers know that it works a lot better than slow boring cardio. You get results faster, with much shorter workouts, and you actually get results, compared to some of these cardio workouts that aren’t getting you any results at all.High Intensity Interval Training means any type of spring exercise that lasts from about 0-90 seconds. Anything longer than about 2 minutes can get into what’s called aerobic interval training. Generally High Intensity Interval Training sessions are about 90 seconds or less.So usually even about 15-30 or even 45 seconds. That just means that you sprint for that designated period of time. Then you go down to a very easy period of exercise. That’s one of the big mistakes people make when they are doing their interval training, they don’t drop the intensity down low enough during the recovery period.If you are running at 10 miles per hour during your interval, and you drop it down only 8 miles per hour, then you’re really just still doing cardio. You’re not doing High Intensity Interval Training because that will not allow you to recover, and you won’t be able to sprint hard again at 10 miles per hour. So make sure you go from hard to easy.That means from going from a sprint, to a walk. It’s OK to walk during interval training. That’s the whole purpose so that you can work really hard.We are going to start with our warm up. Then we will get into our first High Intensity Interval Training.

So after I am fully warmed up, as you see in the exercise videos above, doing our regular specific 5-10 minute warm-up, then we’ll go into our High Intensity Interval Training. So now I am sprinting. This is a pace that I can maintain for 30 -45 seconds. I’ll do my interval after 45 seconds. I’ll take it all the way down to a very low recovery pace. So all the way down to 3.5 MPH on the treadmill. Make sure that you’re walking. So it doesn’t matter if you run you intervals at 8 MPH or 10MPH or even 12 MPH, you have to come down to this walking pace. That’s one interval. You’ll do about 6 intervals in a workout, and finish with a cooldown. That’s High Intensity Interval Training. It’s going to give you more results in terms of your fat loss program, also in sports specific conditioning. It’s also going to make you fitter for your everyday activities.

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Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men’s Health,Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fatlos workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardiosessions or fancy equipment, visit Turbulence Training

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