5 Fat Loss Myths: Why Long, Slow Boring Cardio is not the Best Fat Loss Program to Increase Your Metabolism and Burn Belly Fat…

 

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5 Fat Loss Myths: Why Long, Slow Boring Cardio is not the Best Fat Loss Program to Increase Your Metabolism and Burn Belly Fat…

By Craig Ballantyne, Men’s Health Magazine Expert, Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, and Author of Turbulence Training

Myth #1 - You Have to Do Cardio in the Morning on an Empty Stomach in order to Burn Fat

There is no fat loss magic to doing cardio on an empty stomach. In fact, most trainers “in-the-know” are using intervals instead of slow, boring cardio to help their clients burn fat fast. Plus, who wants to be doing boring cardio at 6am while their stomach is rumbling? If you could find a better way to burn fat, wouldn’t you do that instead?

Myth #2 - You Have to Do Cardio in the Fat Burning Zone

By exercising in the fat burning “Zone”, as some folks like to call it, you only burn a few extra calories than if you weren’t doing any exercise at all! Slow, boring cardio workouts are not the best way to lose belly fat. If you truly want to change your body, you need to use short, burst exercise workouts.

Myth #3 - You Have to Do Cardio 7 Days Per Week

You don’t need to workout everyday. The truth is, you only need to do 3 short workouts per week of 45 minutes.

Myth #4 You Have to Do Cardio for at Least 20 Minutes Before You Start Burning Fat

We’re burning fat all the time, even while you sit here and read this message. Sure, exercise increases our fat burning, but it’s not as though the first 20 minutes of any workout don’t burn fat. That makes no sense at all! I’ll show you how the short, burst exercise system helps you achieve more fat loss in less than half the time of a regular cardio workout.

Myth #5 – You Can’t Gain Muscle & Burn Fat at the Same Time

Scientific research and my experience says, “Yes, you can!” A recent study found that men and women can gain muscle and lose fat at the same time if they use a component of my Turbulence Training system.

If you are ready to learn all about the short, burst exercise system that will help you boost your metabolism, increase your fat loss, and burn belly fat, then make your choice below…

WOMEN: Click here to discover the truth about cardio for fat loss, and why the two components of short, burst exercise workouts have been scientifically proven to better for fat loss and losing your belly fat.

MEN: Click here to learn about the short workouts you can do to build muscle and burn fat at the same time, all while getting in and out of the gym in under 45 minutes only 3 times per week, so that you can get on to more important things in your life.

If you have any questions, you can contact me by clicking here.

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If you were away this past memorial day week-end you might have missed this great f.ree e-book we are allowed to offer you thanks to Jon Benson.

It went with his brand new release of 7 Minute Muscle released on Friday . If you did not receive Sarah’s review of 7 Minute Muscle please see below the download link for the f.ree e-book 7 Super Supplements.

The f.ree e-book 7 Super supplements written by Jon Benson can be downloaded from this link :

http://www.atozfitness.com/downloads/7_Super_Supplements.pdf
( No signup required as it has not been added to our brand new download area )

Speaking of our new download area we have now combined ALL our F.ree e-books on one easy to access download page.

once you confirm your request to receive access to our F.ree members area downloads you will taken automatically to the account creation page where you can download every single e-book available on the download page.

Currently we have 20 but I am adding more as I receive them.

Hope you enjoy the new easy file access system.

P.s. if you have not done so yet check out Jon’s great new 7 minute Muscle website. Link below.

 


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7 Super Supplements free e-book written by Jon Benson

 

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Thanks to Jon Benson for releasing a great f.ree e-book for me to send to my list.

It went with his brand new release of 7 Minute Muscle released on Friday . If you did not receive Sarah’s review of 7 Minute Muscle please see below the download link for the f.ree e-book 7 Super Supplements.

The f.ree e-book 7 Super supplements written by Jon Benson can be downloaded from this link :

Sarah’s review of 7 Minute Muscle is here in case you did not see it :

Ok we are now getting lot’s of e-mails on what is this new 7 Minute Muscle written by Jon Benson and the best way to let you know is through Sarah’s review.

We got our hands on a copy from Jon yesterday and Sarah has already devoured it and is going to start using it to train me soon as we finish the Combat the Fat challenge.

Sarah on 7 Minute Muscle

7MM for short. And that’s what this is about. Short. Save time. Train fast and furious and get on with other things.

Well, fast and furious, not quite. When you buy the 7MM e-book, the download page also gives you 6 videos showing you how to do the training involved. It’s not fast per se; just quick.

OK, let me explain that.

You train at a controlled speed and with good form, as always.

The time factor comes in the rest periods. That’s what’s fast.

You need … the e-book (and the videos help too), a stop watch, and a place to train. You can do this at your local gym, but make sure you wear a head set and the stop watch and keep your eyes to yourself, you don’t want anyone interrupting you! Or you can do it at home, depending on your preferences.

The 7 Minute Muscle e-book is jammed full of scientific research; but don’t worry, you know Jon Benson, he has to throw in a personal comment or ten, and it’s really an easy read.

You do need to be concentrated though, and I recommend taking a few notes along the way so you can go back and review certain passages.

Oh, there’s no index or chapters, so unless you take those notes, you may end up reading the whole thing one more time … actually, I will anyway. There’s so much information in those 83 pages, that one read won’t be enough to assimilate it all.

I mean, words like psychophysiology … I’d never heard of that before! Nor did I know the brain had so many waves … alpha, beta, delta, theta … sure, all letters in the Greek alphabet so the words are familiar enough, but to think they’re all in your brain - and more to the point, how you can control them to get an optimal workout and great body faster than by just going to the gym to pump some weights and chat with the other members! Awesome.

I love Jon’s work, that’s no secret. From Moving Beyond Cardio to Every Other Day Diet and Fit Over 40, I’ve read every word he’s put in there, as well as the Scaling The World series, and I looked at the MPower series as well.

Doesn’t it make sense to listen to a guy who’s been there (overweight, he even admits to obese) and is now where he is? Wouldn’t you think he knows what he’s talking about? I do, and I have already used EODD - actually I still do - and Beyond Cardio; and I admit I was waiting for him to come out with a muscle book to tie it all together. This is it. 7MM is out.

You know we’re still doing the Combat The Fat challenge … in fact we have 5 weeks left of that. We will then take a week off, to let our muscles and brains rest. And then? Well, it’s a no-brainer: 7MM

(Hope we can count on your votes for the Combat the Fat challenge when the time comes )

Who doesn’t have 7, 14 or 21 minutes a day to give to their bodies to keep them in optimum shape, healthy and ready for a long life? If one day you can’t get the 21 minutes, at least do 14. It’s less than a quarter of an hour!

Come on ladies, potatoes don’t boil that fast, you can get the workout done while they cook! See? Multitask. And the guys, unless you do the cooking, set the self-watering thingy on the lawn for 15 minutes and do your workout in the mean time. Yes, men can multi-task too, I just showed you how J

Basic lesson here: you owe it to yourselves to at the very least check this book out, and I cannot see anyone not being thrilled by it.

7 Minute Muscle. 7MM. I’ve printed my copy and it’s coming with me for the weekend! I’ll just read it on the screen today first, with notes taken.

Oh by the way, if you think it’s all about weights and exercises? Not really; it’s very much a mind thing; mind over matter. Your mind over your body. With great results once you grasp it and apply it.


Click-Here to check out 7 Minute Muscle
It only takes a minute :)

 

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We got our hands on a copy from Jon yesterday and Sarah has already devoured it and is going to start using it to train me soon as we finish the Combat the Fat challenge.

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7MM for short. And that’s what this is about. Short. Save time. Train fast and furious and get on with other things.

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I mean, words like psychophysiology … I’d never heard of that before! Nor did I know the brain had so many waves … alpha, beta, delta, theta … sure, all letters in the Greek alphabet so the words are familiar enough, but to think they’re all in your brain – and more to the point, how you can control them to get an optimal workout and great body faster than by just going to the gym to pump some weights and chat with the other members! Awesome.

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Basic lesson here: you owe it to yourselves to at the very least check this book out, and I cannot see anyone not being thrilled by it.

7 Minute Muscle. 7MM. I’ve printed my copy and it’s coming with me for the weekend! I’ll just read it on the screen today first, with notes taken.

Oh by the way, if you think it’s all about weights and exercises? Not really; it’s very much a mind thing; mind over matter. Your mind over your body. With great results once you grasp it and apply it.


Click-Here to check out 7 Minute Muscle
It only takes a minute :)

Sincerely,
Lewis + Sarah
www.atozfitness.com
www.trainwithsarah.com

If you have any questions, you can contact me by clicking here.

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Politically Incorrect Weight Loss - Turbulence Training Trial Offer.

 

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Politically Incorrect Weight Loss  
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com
 
You know who is your worst enemy in the fight against fat?

Well-meaning, politically correct, fitness professionals that don’t want to make you feel bad for being lazy and eating crap. That’s who.

They write articles about how "diets are bad", how you can lift soup cans and get fitness model arms, and how you should exercise in the nice and easy "fat burning zone" to get results.

Basically, they give you what want to hear - plenty of excuses for avoiding hard exercise and strict nutrition (the real keys to fat loss).

But I don’t. You’ll get no such excuses from me.

Here’s the real deal on fat loss. You have to work hard in your workouts and even harder on your nutrition if you want results. Or you can take the politically-correct easy way out and have the same body in 3, 6, and even 12 months from now.

Love me or hate me, I promise you results. Let’s take a look at why the PC-solutions don’t work…

Q: I’ve been told to exercise in my "fat burning zone". What’s the best cardio method for weight loss?

Answer:
Cardio is not the only solution.

Clearly it adds to the energy deficit and overall calorie balance that favors fat loss.

BUT it’s not the "end all & be all" of fat loss success - and that is anecdotally supported by the number of overweight distance runners.

I almost never recommend long, slow cardio…simply because no one I train or consult with has the time for this, and it doesn’t work any better than shorter, less frequent, more intense interval training sessions.

Five or six days of 45-minute cardio sessions in my fat-burning zone? Yeah right, like anyone has time for that.

If I told you that you could get the same results (or better, as recent research suggests) in three 20-minute interval sessions each week as you could from three or five 45-minute slower cardio sessions each week, which would you choose?

Yes, intervals feel about 10x’s harder than regular, slow, boring cardio. And yes, you won’t be able to read your people magazine when doing intervals. And you might breath a little heavy. So if you’re worried about sweating, than maybe fat loss isn’t for you.

But if you don’t mind going against the crowd, intervals are worth every second for the superior results.

Q: Should men and women train differently for fat loss?

Answer:
Nope. Next question.

Seriously, the answer is no, but just to add to that, men and women don’t have that many differences when it comes to fat loss, so they both do well
with the Turbulence Training style workouts.

Now here’s one reason why TT may actually work better for women than men…

More women tend to start Turbulence Training after having spent months or years using slow cardio and light (if any) weights.

And I could not be any happier - because when these dedicated women start using the shorter, more intense strength and interval sessions they make rapid progress and make me look like a genius.

The accolades come pouring in…I have many testimonials from women thanking me for saving them TIME while helping them finally breakthrough stubborn fat loss plateaus (and eliminating the pain from their overuse injuries that occurred due to high volumes of cardio).

Their words make me feel like a million bucks because the TT workouts are making these women feel like a million bucks.

That being said, I sometimes make small changes in TT workouts to adapt to a woman’s pre-conceived notions about strength training.

Some women are very hesitant to lift weights. But you and I know that is necessary for bodysculpting, fat loss, and health benefits such as building bones.

So what I do is sub a few (not all!) of the weight exercises out and replace them with equal intensity bodyweight exercises. Some bodyweight exercises can be classified as traditional strength exercises (i.e. for a woman that can only do 5 full pushups, the pushup exercise is almost a max strength exercise).

But women "mentally" deal with this type of strength training better than putting a dumbbell in their hands.

On the other hand, some bodyweight exercises provide more of an interval training effect (i.e. bodyweight squats).

Women will love the Bonus "TT for Abs" Workout found in the TT Membership site. This program contains challenging bodyweight ab and circuit workouts that will burn fat without bulking.

You’ll get this as part of the 3-month TT Members bonus you get when you start with Turbulence Training.

Start here: http://www.turbulencetraining.com

Either way, bodyweight exercises can put turbulence (i.e. "stress") on the muscle and boost metabolism and help female clients get the results they want and deserve.

Q: What differentiates Turbulence Training from other programs?

Answer:
That’s a tough question to answer, as there are other systems out there that give impressive results in an acceptable time frame.

I will say this however, I am extremely dedicated to Turbulence Training and the entire "fat loss" cause.

One of the factors behind my dedication is that I find the general concept of fat loss to be so simple, and yet millions and millions of people around the world have an incredibly difficult time achieving their goals.

I want to give them every possible resource available to them to help them succeed.

So I am constantly tinkering with new workouts, exercises, and interval methods, and interviewing other trainers and nutritional experts for every single little fat burning advantage I can find.

And that comes through in what I offer to the readers of my newsletters and clients that use my programs.

I said in a past newsletter that "Fat loss is easy, once you realize how hard it is." You have to respect that it’s not something you put on "auto-pilot".

Taking the stairs at work instead of the elevator, parking 100 extra feet away from the door, and subbing 1% milk for 2% milk is not going to help you lose 13 pounds of fat in a year like the politically correct weight loss articles suggest.

You need a politically-incorrect plan to eat right 90% of the time (i.e. saying "no" when an office-mate brings in doughnuts) and you have to have the best workout plan available to you if you want to get the most results in the least amount of time.

And then you still have to have a plan to help you stick to those plans - and that should involve a social support group. There are many tricks and tips to success, so you always have to keep learning and trying to improve. And that’s what I help with in my programs and newsletters.

Get your very own copy of Turbulence Training & the Nutrition Guide here: =>
http://www.turbulencetraining.com

Sincerely,

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training

PS. You get SEVEN bonuses with the new Turbulence Training package.

Including my previously un-released "Turbulence Training for Muscle" and the revolutionary "Turbulence Training for Women" program used as a follow-up to the original TT manual.

Use short workouts and enjoy your life!

"I purchased Turbelence Training in November 2006 and have been using it for about 6 weeks now. I have reached my lowest weight yet and more importantly I didn’t starve or over work myself. I can now do 10 pushups on my toes for each set and I have noticed muscle development in my chest which I could not get before TT. At 46 years old I feel that I can reach a level of fitness that I didn’t think was possible and I don’t have to be a slave to working out. It is true that your workouts can be done in 45 minutes which leaves a lot more time for enjoying life."
Cindy Casella

"I went from 15.6% down to 11.7% and MAINTAINED my lean mass (and strength actually increased a little). The TT for Muscle workout is awesome. I have worked muscles I didn’t know I had and I didn’t expect to get stronger, but I have! To date, I am 5 lbs more muscular than I was 5 weeks ago - that’s not bad for a guy who’ll turn 38 next week!"
Stu Phillips, Ph.D.

Get your very own copy of Turbulence Training & the Nutrition Guide here::
=> http://www.turbulencetraining.com

PPS - I’ve also added a 3-month TT Membership as a NEW bonus.

There are workouts and videos for you to download, plus the forums where you can ask me all your fat loss questions.

Start here: http://www.turbulencetraining.com

About the Author

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit www.TurbulenceTraining.com

P.s. Get a 21 day trial of Turbulence Training for just $4.95

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Sincerely,
Lewis + Sarah
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www.trainwithsarah.com

If you have any questions, you can contact me by clicking here.

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Learning The Muscle Fiber Types

 

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Learning The Muscle Fiber Types
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Choosing the best type of workout program that will stimulate the muscle fiber type that will get you the results you’re looking for is extremely important.

Unfortunately, all body building programs are not created equally when speaking in terms of muscle fiber types.

While you can’t differentiate between muscle fibers from your outside appearance, on the inside of the muscle tissue body, there are three main different fibers present.

Type A Fast-Twitch Muscle Fibers

The first type of muscle fibers are known as Type A Fast Twitch and are responsible for the most forceful contractions generated, however, will fatigue the fastest.

For example, if you were to perform an all out set of 3 reps for bench press, you would predominately be using these type A muscle fibers.

They tend to have very large motor neurons and very low mitochondrial density. They also have a low oxidative capacity, meaning they will not be able to utilize oxygen very well. It is for this reason that they are not suited to endurance type of activities, because during these exercise variations, oxygen must be present in order to sustain the muscular contractions.

The major type of fuel that these muscle fibers are going to rely on is creatine phosphate and stored muscle glycogen (glucose). They will not utilize stored body fat at all due to the fact that they are only able to continually contract for between one and about 20 seconds.

Type B Fast-Twitch Muscle Fibers

The next muscle fiber is also classified as a fast twitch muscle fiber but not to the extent that type A are.

This muscle fiber type is mostly utilized in activities that are relatively short in duration, but are not at an all out pace.

For example, if you were to sprint 100 meters, you’ll be using mostly type A. If on the other hand, you are to do a running interval at about 80-90% of your max capacity for 30 seconds, this would utilize the type 2A more.

Some of the characteristics of the type B muscle fibers are that they still have a large motor neuron (not as large as Type A though), they are on the intermediate scale as far as being resistant to fatigue, and they have a high degree of mitochondrial density.

These muscle fiber types are also able to use oxygen to a great extent, as demonstrated by their higher resistance to fatigue and longer duration of contraction abilities.

Slow Twitch

Finally, the third type of muscle fiber that you have in your body is classified as slow-twitch.

This is the muscle fiber type you would use if you were to run a marathon or any other extended duration, medium-to-low intensity activity.

These muscle fibers have a very high ability to resist fatigue and have a large oxidative capacity.

They are also relatively slow to contract, therefore you cannot expect a great deal of force generation from these muscles, and thus, will not be intended for exercises requiring a high degree of power.

They are very high in terms of mitochondrial density and have a large number of capillaries running throughout their bodies. This is to enable sufficient oxygen to get to the muscle tissues so that they can carry on the extended duration of muscular work they are intended to do.

These are also the muscle fibers that will also rely more on fat as fuel, as opposed to strictly using carbohydrates or creatine phosphate.

Training The Muscle Fiber Types

So, now that you’re familiar with the three major classes of muscle fiber types, it’s time to recognize how you would train each effectively.

Since type A are your primary force generators, if you wish to get a higher performance from them you’ll need to train using exercises that require you to max out your effort for a short period of time.

Think sprinting at full speed, 1-5 rep sets for lifting, and any type of plyometric activities.

Next, to train your type B muscles fibers you’ll want to slightly decrease the force with which you are to contract while simultaneously increasing the time over which you contract ever so slightly.

For example, perform 30-45 intervals repeated ten times with about a minute or a minute and a half at a low to moderate pace. For your weight training activities, aim to target the 6-10 rep range to utilize the fact these muscle fibers have a higher oxidation ability.

Finally, to improve your slow twitch muscle fibers, think endurance. This type of fiber will usually require the greatest amount of time to train for improvement because you’ll want to focus on simply going ‘longer’.

If you’re a runner, try and run longer. If you’re a biker, bike longer. If you’re a swimmer, swim longer – you get the point.

This type of muscle has the ability to go for extended periods of time so this is exactly wh