Are Your Fat
Burning Exercises
Keeping You Fat And Unhealthy?
The majority
of exercisers today still rely on long duration moderate paced aerobic exercise as their primary
routine to burn fat fast. But recent studies have shown that this is a big, I mean big mistake. In
fact, you could say that the whole aerobics explosion of a few decades past was one of the biggest
mistakes in the health and fitness industry.
Why?
There are
several reasons, but I’ll focus on the two main issues here. When you exercise at a moderate
pace for extended periods of time (as in the typically recommended percent of your target heart
rate), your body is burning fat during the exercise. While this may sound good, it’s actually
bad news.
This sends a
signal to your body to keep a certain amount of stored fat available for your next workout.
You’re essentially telling it that it needs fat available to burn, ‘because you’ll be doing this
exercise again. So while we may be burning some calories during this exercise, after the
exercise is over, our body begins storing up some fat for the next workout. Obviously not
what we’re looking for in terms of maximum ability to burn fat fast.
The other
big concern with moderately paced aerobic exercise performed several times per week is that it
trains your body (heart, lungs, muscles, etc.) to become efficient. Again, this may sound
good, but what is actually happening is bad for long term health. You are working only within
your existing aerobic limits, without improving your aerobic capacity.
This is
important because your aerobic capacity is what determines how your body responds in times of
physical, emotional, and mental stress. If you reduce your capacity for work, as you do in
this type of exercise, you’re reducing your long term health, no to mention a poor chance of
burning fat.
The good
news is, you can reverse these effects by instead focusing your workouts on high intensity
resistance training, with workouts that last 15-20 minutes on average, and can only be performed
2-3 times per week.
These
workouts will burn carbohydrates instead of fat during the workout, and will cause your body to use
its fat stores to replenish the burned carbs over the next 24 hours, after the workout is
done! This type of work will also increase your reserve capacity and thus your ability to
handle all types of stress, leading to lasting health and fitness...and 24/7 fat
burning.
Nice!
But the
exercise must be performed correctly to be effective, and that means using sufficient intensity,
and keeping your rest periods between exercises and sets down to 60 seconds or
less.
The students
of my Fat Burning Furnace method know this, and are reaping the benefits. When you think
about how little time you have to spend compared to the typically recommended methods to get these
fat burning and health creating results, it’s almost magical.
This article
was generously provided to Fat Burning Secrets by Rob Poulos, the
creator of Fat Burning Furnace, our #1 Pick for a Fat Burning
Program.
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