I often get asked, “What’s the best way to burn fat and lose my belly?” People want to know if aerobics is better than strength training, or if traditional cardio exercise is better than intervals.
It would be an understatement to say I have tried them all.
Using laboratory research and training for at least 15 years both for myself and sports I can tell you what exercises work and what don’t.
Time. Do you have it? For those of you who can’t spend 90 minutes per day exercising I want to talk to you.
Exercise magazines portray that we need 90 minutes to exercise. People don’t have that and disconnect.
You don’t need 6-8 hours/week to exercise. Maybe if your goal is a triathlon you do. But for those of us trying to lose and tone there is still hope.
Therefore to get a better body, you need…
For warming up use your body-weight, to build muscle use strength training supersets, and then to burn fat in a short amount of time and finish your workout use interval training. This system is made so that you can be in and out of the gym in 45 minutes only 3 times per week.
Warm up using 5 minutes of bodyweight exercise. This will be much more effective than walking on a treadmill. Walking on a tread mill will only get you ready to walk more on a treadmill.
Next are strength training supersets. What is this? Use two exercises, with minimal rest between each, back to back. This will give us top results and cut workout time. Take about 20 minutes for this step. Depending on your goal you should use basic exercises and if you would like add more bodyweight exercises.
And finally, we’ll do 18 minutes of interval training. A warm-up, followed by six short intervals at the appropriate fitness level for the client, interspersed with short periods of low-intensity recovery. Finish with a cool-down. And that’s the workout. Again, about 45 minutes total.
That will be a much more effective workout than running, cycling, or a cardio machine for 45 min straight. Sure they all burn calories but they don’t build a better body.
In fact, there are a few “dark sides” to long slow cardio, including less-than-optimal results, the potential for overuse injuries, and it is an inefficient form of exercise. If you only have 30-45 minutes for your workout and you spend it all on a cardio machine, when are you going to train the rest of your muscles and sculpt a better body?
Therefore you can burn belly fat fast by combining strength training and interval training. It works and is fun in the process!
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