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Maybe you’ve been told that cardio is the best way to lose fat…but
if you’re not getting results with that long, slow, boring program
then I have shocking news for you.
Recently, Men’s Health and Women’s Health fitness expert Craig
Ballantyne emailed me the top 5 reasons why trainers should stop
telling their clients to do cardio.
I was surprised by [...]
Here are some great tips from my buddy Craig Ballantyne….
If you are looking to cut down on the amount of time you spend in the gym without jeopardizing your fat loss goals, then including interval training alongside your strength training program is the only way to go.
Just imagine spending half the time in the gym [...]
The dreaded belly fat! It seems so much easier to lose weight anywhere else when compared to losing the belly fat. However it does not have to be that way!
There are a lot of mistakes that are made when people are trying to get rid of belly fat. Although losing body fat quickly is possible, [...]
Almost everyone I know wants to burn off their belly fat, and they always ask me which abs exercises they should be doing. They are totally shocked when I tell them that abs exercises will not help you to lose that belly fat. What you should be doing instead are intervals.
Intervals are the ultimate way [...]
The curse of being born a woman, especially one with a history of large people in the family, is to suffer big hips and thighs and a flabby abdomen. As we age, we compound this problem with our food habits and irresponsible lifestyle. And when the mirror reflects a large butt and huge thighs one [...]
I wanted to see how comparable body weight exercises were compared to interval training on the treadmill, so I decided to to a little test.
I did 11 minutes of body weight exercises, such as jump rope, jumping jacks, high knees, cross cross, and so on in tabata style, 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest. I [...]
One thing that I do make sure to do at least once with all of my clients is teach them the correct way to do intervals. Most people don’t push themselves hard enough, which is just a waste of time. Why not put all your effort into 10-15 minutes and be done!
I did a video [...]
Ok..here I am..showing you just how I have let my abs go along with my body fat as well. Sometimes its so much easier to to think, ” I look pretty good, its ok if I eat this…or that…” but its not. As Craig Ballantyne showed you in his video about how you can’t outrain [...]
I know there are a lot of people out there that dread doing cardio because they feel they need to do for an hour at a time to get any results, but they are just plain WRONG about that!
Cardio can be done in 3 minutes, 10 minutes ( my all time favorite), 20 minutes or [...]
Cardio doesn’t have to be long and boring. Take it from me, I am a non-cardio person. I don’t like to do cardio and if I can find a way to make it short, sweet and effective, believe me, I will!
There was a while back that I just completely cut out doing cardio, because I [...]