The #1 reason for not working out is a lack of time.
If you get up at 5:30am to drive an hour to work, only to get home at 6pm and then
have to launch right into carting the kids around, who can blame you for not working
out? Not when it takes 45 minutes to do cardio, and another 30-45 minutes for isolation
bodybuilding workouts.
If that's the way you have to exercise to lose fat, then practically no normal person
is going to be able to pull that off.
But when you look at the science, you'll see that you can get more results in less
time. You just have to increase the intensity of the workout, but at the same time,
you can cut your workout time in half (or more!).
I am convinced that an effective fat loss workout can be done in 45 minutes or less,
and that long, slow, excruciatingly boring cardio is not necessary for you to get
the body you want. Please, read on...
In last week's newsletter, I spoke about the 3 biggest training mistakes as well
as my top 3 training tips to help you get more results in less time. Here I go into
detail on the superiority of interval training when compared to traditional aerobic
exercise:
Q: What is the role of interval training vs. steady state aerobics in a fat
loss program?
Answer:
Interval training is more important than cardio. First of all, it gets more results
in less time. And with "lack of time" being the number one reason most
people do not participate in a training program at all, clearly intervals are the
winner here.
Now let's just assume that lack of time is not a problem. Well, interval training
is still more effective because it applies more "turbulence" to the muscle.
Or in scientific terms, interval training results in a greater metabolic stress
on the muscle.
And that causes more calories to be burned in the important 23.5 hours per day when
you are not exercising.
From there, the muscle must work to recover, repair, and replenish the energy that
was used in the training. It is much more metabolic work for the muscle to recover
from interval training (and strength training) than it is to recover from aerobic
training.