So you want to lose belly fat, but you don’t want to do cardio.I hate to burst your bubble but something has
to change.Cardio isn’t really that bad,
you just need something to preoccupy yourself.
I was in Tampa, Florida, at
a seminar not to long ago. In between sessions, a physician from Georgia pulled
me to the side and said, "Hey Craig, you were right about those
crosstrainer machines. I've had your program for a few months now and I'm
getting better results with the bodyweight circuits."
Cardio exercise is such a bizarre
thing. In theory, it should workso flawlessly for all men and women, but as anyone who hastried it knows, the practicality of it just doesn't add up.
The controversies over cardio for fat loss are
endless: steady state versus intervals, fed versus fasted, long and easy versus
short and intense, and so on. Obviously there is a lot of interest in cardio
training and how to do it right. Sadly, most people are still doing 2 things
terribly wrong and it’s killing their results…… As best as I can figure, there
are two major reasons why people are still mucking up their cardio programs for
fat loss.
REASON #1: NOT ENOUGH FOCUS ON TOTAL CALORIES BURNED
In the year 2006, I've seen
so many articles on cardio
that it even made me
confused! Everything from
don't with it "good night to
cardio" to cardio is
worthless to HIIT training
and all kinds of crazy
ideas. There's anti-cardio
gurus and cardio masters.
If you have never heard about the program HIIT, it stands for High Intensity Interval Training. I have seen no other form of cardio that is as effective as HIIT. It in short HIIT is sprint for a short period of time, then jog to recover. This is done about 15 times give or take. Some people advocate 1 minute sprint followed by 2 minutes of jogging. Thats pretty tough, to start off you'll want to maybe do 20-30 seconds of sprinting followed by enough time to catch your breath.
