Do you think doing cardio for 1 hour at the gym will make you lean and toned? Think again... A 1998 study in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition had a group of participants do 45 minutes of cardio per day, 5 days per week. They followed this protocol for 3 months. Get this: They lost NO more weight than those who dieted alone. Talk about a big waste of your time. And how about this 2007 study in the Journal of Obesity, which revealed that doing 60 minutes of cardio, 6 days per week, only resulted in an average of 2kg of total weight loss after an ENTIRE year. Yikes. That adds up to 312 hours of cardio in a single year. So unless you’re doing steady state cardio in a very limited and strategic way (like the way we do at our training sessions), it can be a total waste of time. Now you probably know by now that I recommend using intervals and weight training instead, which is obviously better than your standard cardio. Thats why our sessions are designed with a combination of weights and high intensity cardio training. So think about it this way: high intensity training = more fat burning than loooong boring cardio!
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:52:02 +0000
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