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Quit the long hours of aerobic workout if you want to lose weight!
I've talked abou this before with many people, but now even Dr. Sears is talking about it as he comes out with a new PACE program. Basically, he says we should learn from our ancestors: "Just look at our caveman ancestors. They had incredible strength and survived under punishing and life-threatening conditions – but they didn’t make themselves repeat the same movement ten thousand times – day after day!
So what did cavemen know that mainstream medicine doesn’t? Variation… Cavemen followed natural cycles of work and rest – or what I call periods of exertion and recovery. They didn’t run for hours on end, starve themselves with ridiculous diets or lift boulders over their heads to build bigger muscles."
Ok, so we don't live in the cavemen era anymore, but we still can follow the same principle. "The concept is simple: Short periods of exertion followed by short periods of rest." Long-duration aerobic exercise is proven to cause our heart and lungs to shrink, which causes us to get sick easier. It's best to actually shorten the amount of time we exercise and not do long aerobic sessions. This way we will make our heart and lungs stronger AND we will burn fat for many hours AFTER working out.
So, my advice is that you skip the long aerobic sessions on the treadmill and elliptical machine, and concentrate more on strength training and weight lifting exercises for just a half hour. One more thing, do the repetitions slowly and make sure you achieve failure by 12 reps. What I mean by this is: don't go too light on the weights that you can do more, but don't go to heavy that you won't be able to fail at 12.
Enjoy working out!!
Mirdza
Fitness and Health Coach
http://www.CoachMirdza.com
So what did cavemen know that mainstream medicine doesn’t? Variation… Cavemen followed natural cycles of work and rest – or what I call periods of exertion and recovery. They didn’t run for hours on end, starve themselves with ridiculous diets or lift boulders over their heads to build bigger muscles."
Ok, so we don't live in the cavemen era anymore, but we still can follow the same principle. "The concept is simple: Short periods of exertion followed by short periods of rest." Long-duration aerobic exercise is proven to cause our heart and lungs to shrink, which causes us to get sick easier. It's best to actually shorten the amount of time we exercise and not do long aerobic sessions. This way we will make our heart and lungs stronger AND we will burn fat for many hours AFTER working out.
So, my advice is that you skip the long aerobic sessions on the treadmill and elliptical machine, and concentrate more on strength training and weight lifting exercises for just a half hour. One more thing, do the repetitions slowly and make sure you achieve failure by 12 reps. What I mean by this is: don't go too light on the weights that you can do more, but don't go to heavy that you won't be able to fail at 12.
Enjoy working out!!
Mirdza
Fitness and Health Coach
http://www.CoachMirdza.com
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