If I asked you to picture your typical “fat loss” workout, and diet plan would you see yourself on the treadmill or running outside for hours each week (and hating it!) Would you eat low fat tasteless food? That’s why so many people give up so quickly, or don’t even bother to start in the first place. And did you know launching into a heavy program of cardio is the last place a beginner should start?

Because many beginners to fitness are often overweight and unprepared for exercise, excessive cardio only predisposes them to muscle and joint injuries, especially when doing repetitive exercise on a daily basis.

Imagine if you will someone that hasn’t exercised in years, is 40 pounds overweight. Send them out on a 30-minute jog and I guarantee you they’ll be injured in one or two workouts. Their body just isn’t ready for it! With each workout, you’ll make the injury more serious.

Furthermore, most people when starting a fat loss diet and training program, often cut calories and increase activity, so what happens is instead of boosting their metabolism they actually decrease it more, hence weight loss is slow or does not happen and the person gives up after a couple of weeks.

Each day, I see the same people doing the same exercise routine as they did yesterday. They go to the same piece of cardio equipment and use the same level and go at that same slow pace as always, the routine just does not change.

And Guess what?

Neither does their body shape. Next week? No change. Same work out same body. For months and months and months on end (if not years).

I am really sorry if it sounds like I’m describing your progress, but it is all too common. I receive emails from men and women all the time explaining how they workout 5 days a week and their mounting frustration from the lack of results. So what’s the answer?

Should they do more cardio? Of course not, that would be madness.

But the politically correct trainer would say, "Just keep at it. Keep working hard. Doing more cardio in the fat burning zone will help you lose the fat."

Well I’m here to tell you in no uncertain terms, politically incorrect and all, “No it won’t. Extra cardio will not help.” Doing hours and hours of cardio each week is a great way to get nowhere in your fat loss program.

So stop worrying about exercising in a certain heart rate zone for fat loss. Forget about how many calories the machine says you’ve burned (they are wrong most of the time anyway)

To lose fat, you have to do what the average person won’t do.

So Whats the answer?

Short burst interval training. And finding the right foods for you

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