Eagan Personal Trainer and Fitness Bootcamp Instructor Shows You How to Lose Weight Fast and Efficient Without Long Workouts
I’m sitting in our fitness studio and looking around at all the equipment there is here and small 
smile comes across my face – I’m happy it’s not filled with machine up on machine, especially the cardio kind. Now you must know that I worked in commercial gyms for many years, I even owned one and I too was once a cardio junkie until I found the truth. Do you want to know what this highly debatable truth is? Well, the truth is that long bouts of cardio really do nothing for you and running on a treadmill literally means running but getting nowhere with your fat loss results. I have spoken to members in the past and told them this truth, but they would not listen. I would write articles and hold seminars in hopes to provide logical and scientifically based information on this topic, yet these people were stuck in their ways… that is, until they saw my personal training clients achieving amazing results without the long cardio sessions. Finally they saw the light!
I’m going to break it down for you nice and simple. I need you to know that you have been lied to in the past and that I am here to help guide you in the right direction; a direction where you never spend hours upon hours on the treadmill ever again.
So why is Cardio for prolonged periods of time not ideal if you want to lose body fat?
1. Prolonged cardio keeps the heart rate at a steady state. As you complete this style of training, your body does not create an overload effect to lift the metabolism. The calories you burn while you are performing cardio stop burning once you step off the treadmill. This is how all our clients from personal training to our fitness boot camps train.
2. After completing 20 – 25 minutes of cardio, your body will start to release a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol is a stress hormone which will break down muscle tissue and the more muscle tissue you break down the slower your metabolism will become.
3. If you have a slower metabolism from this style of cardio it means your body will burn less calories on any given day and you will have to run further and further to create the same result you achieved with 45 minutes. Eventually you’ be running for 2 hours at a time, I sure don’t have that time to waste. . . .
This may seem strange to you but trust me, it is the truth and I had to find out the hard way so you won’t have to. Our clients in our fitness boot camps and those who do personal training love seeing the fast weight loss results. More importantly it’s coming from fat loss
Now that I have ruled out the prolonged cardio sessions from your workout regime, what should you replace it with? The solution is “HIIT” – High Intensity Interval Training. The HIIT approach involves short intervals of high intensity cardio followed by rest periods of low intensity. The intense periods may change in length of time and even go as high as 1-minute, but the key is to rest at a moderate intensity afterwards. If you perform HIIT correctly, you will only need to perform a maximum of 20-minutes of cardio, three times per week, which will most probably cut your cardio time to a third. Wouldn’t you rather spend that additional time on the finer things in life, like playing with your kids or shopping (hopefully not working). Does it work? Check out these amazing success stories
So how does HIIT burn the fat?
1. Your heart works harder to pump blood around the body and send more blood to the muscles which creates a burn-like feeling in them.
2. This burn-like feeling comes when you’re working in the lactate energy system and being in this system is a must for HIIT. The lactate system produces lactic acid in the muscle which then will cause the body to release more of your natural growth hormone than normal.
3. Growth hormone lifts the metabolism and helps to repair muscles, creating firmer muscles faster. Now a lift in the metabolism will cause you body to work harder for approximately 38 hours. Wouldn’t you like to burn more calories for an extra 38 hours while you’re sleeping eating, working and watching T.V.? It’s like your body turns into a calorie burning machine!
An example of a HIIT workout is: 5 min warm-up followed by 7 bouts of 30 seconds to 1 min sprints followed by 2 min 30 second walks and a 3 min walking cool down, with the total workout lasting approx 25 minutes. This is all you need and you will receive the body of a sprinter. I could show you studies where 20 minutes of HIIT burns 9 times the amount of calories as 60-minutes of cardio… there are hundreds out there. Or you can take my word for it and lift your metabolism for the next 48 hours.
So spread the word and tell your friends that they too have been lied to about cardio and how they must change. Then tell them to join you at Eagan’s only holistic personal training studio and you to can get lean and mean, well… maybe just lean cause we only like nice people workin out at our studio. We’ll even give you a couple of free weeks to try us out. What are you waiting for? Give us a call 952-220-7201
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