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If you want
to lose
fat, especially from your stomach fat, you
have to do long, boring, monotonous cardio in order to
achieve your goal.
Right?
I mean, that’s
what you’ve always been told by the
“experts.”
They’ve always said,
“If you want to lose fat, do lots of
cardio.”
But is that
true?
Do I really have to pin
my fat
loss hopes and dreams on doing 60 minutes
of cardio everyday of the week?
Absolutely
not!
And if you do want to
do cardio, you sure as heck don’t have to do it for that
long.
There is a better
way…a far better way to lose fat, especially stomach
fat.
You need to focus on
doing resistance training if you really want
to lose stomach
fat.
And if you do it
correctly, you won’t even need to do a traditional cardio
session again!
When I say “do
it correctly”, I mean that you need to focus on doing
full body workouts that focus on working large muscle
groups, rather than attempting to split your body into
sections and working one thing at a
time.
All too often
I hear guys say that they’re going to spend today’s
workout session on Back and Biceps or Chest and Abs,
etc.
I’ve got news for
you, the body just doesn’t work that
way.
You can’t just split
the body up into pieces and expect to get superior
results, especially if time is an issue when you
workout.
The ladies are
not immune to this phenomenon either.
I always hear ladies
saying they want to work their triceps and “inner thighs”
or “saddle bags” in an effort to “tone
up.”
Sorry ladies, but
that’s just not going to happen if you train that
way.
Especially if you
finish that workout up by hopping on the treadmill for 60
minutes (or more) of fast walking because you don’t want
to leave your “fat burning zone.”
A zone that doesn’t
exist by the way.
So now that
I’ve told you that the fat loss cardio you're used to
doesn’t work, let’s get to what does work. As I said
earlier, what works is full body workouts that focus on
working lots of muscle because muscle is what burns
fat.
Here’s a
typical workout that I prescribe to my
clients.
Warm-up for 5
minutes by doing a circuit of medicine ball chops,
push-ups and bodyweight squats.
Then perform
the following supersets.
1A)
“T” Push-up – 10
reps
1B)
Dumbbell Bent Over
Row – 8 reps
2A)
Reverse Lunge – 10
reps per leg
2B)
Incline Dumbbell
Chest Press – 8 reps
3A)
Dumbbell Rear Flies –
8 reps
3B)
1-Leg Stability Ball
Leg Curl – 10 reps per
leg
4A)
Mt. Climbers – 30
seconds
4B)
Stability Ball
Rollout – 12
Then I have my
clients perform interval training for their
cardio.
This comes in many
different types, but at its root, all interval training
consists of is mixing bouts of intense activity with
bouts of lower intensity activity.
This could
mean mixing sprinting for 20 seconds with walking for 90
for 10 minutes or it could mean doing bodyweight circuits
for 15 minutes.
The sky really is the
limit with this type of “cardio”.
The point is
that you need to get out of the cardio mentality that so
many of the so-called experts have you trapped in and
break free and try something new.
Something that will
work and is proven to work.
I’ve been using this
style of training with my training clients for years with
fantastic results.
Give it a try
today and I’ll prove to you it works.
By: Ed Scow,
NSCA-CPT, LMT
author, Fat
Loss To Go - 10 Minute Fat Loss Workout Program Designed
For Busy Moms and Dads
www.fatlosstogo.com
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