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A friend of mine wakes up every morning at 5 o’clock and goes for a 10 km jogging for about 90 minutes. He’s very proud of himself and claims he lost a lot of weight which I cannot see. What a waste of time! But this is what most outdated fitness instructors, magazines and health authorities were pitching. Long duration! Low intensity! Fat loss training zone! Calorie spending greater than calorie consumption! The theory works but at a very high price of your time and your results. I don’t know anyone that after a depleting 1.5 hour cardio goes for a 1 hour weight lifting session. And it’s all about resistance training. It’s your anti-aging regimen, because it offsets muscle loss and bone mass loss. It’s your weight loss regimen because muscles accelerate your metabolic rate all day long (and even better at night). It’s a fat burning regimen because muscles burn fat. But guess what. Fat doesn’t burn fat! So don’t do cardio on the account of resistance training. Resistance training is by far more important. When I don’t have enough time for cardio and weight training, I choose weight training. Many clients ask me about cardio. How much cardio? What kind of cardio? When to do it? That’s probably because there’s more misunderstanding about cardio than just any other part of training. Say cardio to a distance runner and he thinks about endurance. But for a body transformer, it means only one thing: training for definition. The problem is, many think that more cardio means more definition. Wrong. You see, all properly trained muscle is toned. It’s just “covered up” with body fat. If you are doing long cardio training, you end up getting rid of your muscle along with the fat – like throwing the baby out with the bath water. But when you do cardio correctly, you can get the definition you want and keep the muscle. In “Anti-Aging Fitness Program” I provide a High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) because it’s the most effective, as well as the least time consuming, way to lose fat and preserve muscle. Because this type of cardio training gets pretty intensive, you should approach it conservatively and follow your level, time and performance instructions. No matter how good you get at HIIT, don’t overdo it and don’t exceed 20 minutes including the warm up and cool down. In this case…short proved to be better than long:-)
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Dov Oshri is the author of the revolutionary “Anti-Aging Fitness Pogram” "Change Your Body and Be Admired". He is the chief editor of Body for Mind – a Wellness Lifestyle for Successful People. His cutting edge Anti-Aging Fitness Program can be downloaded for FREE at bodyformind.com
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