Cardio supposedly burns calories during the actual session.
Cardio supposedly burns calories after the session.
Cardio supposedly raises the body's metabolic rate.
Cardio supposedly puts the body into a calorie deficit.
And all in all, it supposedly burns body fat.
Regardless of how many so-called scientific studies someone may quote you, regardless of what everyone else seems to be blindly doing, and regardless of what all the magazines and internet sites say???it all comes down to observing what happens in the real world.
Plain and simple.
Sure, cardio does do every one of the things listed above, but as I've demonstrated over and over, the amount of calories cardio burns, the amount of fat cardio burns, the degree it raises the metabolic rate, or the amount of calorie deficit it achieves is so low, so little, that it is not going to make absolutely that big of a difference in how your body looks.
Period.
I've kept stating the same real world examples over and over, and I'm going to do it again to drive the point home:
Compare those that do cardio to those that don't.
Let's look at professional bodybuilders, since no one is more qualified than a pro bodybuilder to demonstrate the most effective way to build the most muscle, while carrying the least amount of fat.
Look at Darrem Charles, Dave Henry, Gerard Dente, Vince Taylor, and for over the first decade of his career, Dexter Jackson (along with a ton of other big name amateurs).
These guys don't do any cardio whatsoever. Never. Not offseason. Not precontest.
They don't even come close to a treadmill, stairstepper, bike, or any other cardio contraption.
Yet these guys, consistently, contest to contest, are always the most ripped, defined, vascular, and muscular bodybuilders on stage.
They are always in much better condition than any of all the other bodybuilders that do perform cardio day in and day out.
Now, please don't say, ?Oh, but what about working the heart, blah, blah, blah??.
Do you honestly believe that your heart isn't getting an intense workout when you do a set of heavy lunges, pulldowns, presses, or any other big movement exercise??
Those that don't think so have obviously never weight trained in an intense manner.
I guarantee you that you are working your heart to a much higher degree when forcing the body to lift heavy weights than any type of cardio you can think of.
Do you really think that a little treadmill works the heart more than getting in a leg press machine, pile on the weights, and start knocking rep after grueling rep out???
Listen, we've already established in my past articles that heavy, intense weight lifting does everything that cardio does, and to a much higher degree.
It burns calories, it burns fat, it raises the metabolic rate for days afterwards, it can cause a calorie deficit???.and, most important of all?????it builds muscle mass!!!!!!!!!
No cardio exercise whatsoever can build muscle mass.
And everyone knows that building lean muscle tissue is the most important factor in being muscular or toned and with low body fat.
What should matter most to you, if you are in search of the most effective and efficient ways to lose weight and burn body fat, is what works in real life, in the real world.
What actually w-o-r-k-s!
Go tell that to all of those people at the gym who spend hours at a time on a treadmill, like gerbil, or in aerobics or spinning class.
Those people, you see them today, and look at them 12 months later, and they'll still look the same!!!
Yeah, they are working up a real sweat, and may feel excellent afterwards, but I prefer to actually look good without a shirt.
Focus on heavy, intense weight lifting, and correct calorie eating.
That's what will actually make a difference in how you look in the mirror.
As with everything, as we experiment and test, test, test, and test some more, for months on end, we sometimes find better methods that lead to gain muscle weight / fat burn at a quicker and easier rate.
But after many many months of testing and measuring rate of fat burn / muscle mass weight gain, and taking a step back and looking at what is happening in the real world and observing other very successful bodybuilders, I have come to the conclusion that cardio is not necessary.
You no longer have to do cardio at all!
Again, focus on the ?Big Two??..heavy, intense weight lifting and proper calorie eating.
I noticed that cardio always severly depleted my energy levels, it made me take longer for my muscles to recover, it would cause me to lose some of my hard-earned muscle mass, and it would chew up a lot of my time.
As soon as I stopped doing cardio, concentrated on my special way of weight training I immediately noticed that my muscles would remain ?full?, I had a lot of energy, and I was able to burn fat a lot faster and easier.
Part of this is because cardio is VERY catabolic (eats up muscle tissue).
You'll have more time and more energy on your hands. Trust me.
So, say ?goodnight? to cardio.
Copyright 2006 Jonathan Perez
Cardio And Weight Loss
If you believe that cardio/aerobics and dieting are the fastest ways to lose weight and burn fat, I'm sorry to inform you that you are a victim of the deliberate misinformation provided by health, fitness, and bodybuilding magazines and late night infomercials. Not only are cardio/aerobics and dieting vastly inferior, outdated methods of weight loss which offer very limited results compared to a revolutionary new form of exercise, but are you aware that cardio/aerobics and dieting can actually dramatically inhibit your efforts to get in shape, burn fat, and build a tight, toned body?
For example, extended periods of cardio/aerobics will severely diminish your muscle mass (the fat burning furnaces of your body), which, in turn, dramatically reduces your metabolism, making it far easier for your body to store calories as fat rather than burning those calories for energy. Likewise, dieting can greatly contribute to the accumulation of fat by sending the body into shock and shutting down your metabolism. When caloric intake is limited to the degree that most dieters reduce it to (and it doesn't take much), the body goes into "survival mode." Your body doesn't realize that you're deliberately restricting your caloric intake for the purpose of losing weight. Instead, your body believes that there is a food shortage such as a famine, and in order to ensure that you survive for as long as possible, it begins to store as many calories as it can as fat to be used at a later time when perhaps the food supply has been cut off completely. The combination of cardio/aerobics and dieting is metabolic suicide.
You see, the standard methods of cardio/aerobics and dieting are ancient theories created nearly a century ago when scientists had very little knowledge of the human body, but the health, fitness, and bodybuilding magazines still fill their pages with this horribly outdated knowledge, and you can't flip through more than three channels late at night without seeing some worthless infomercial geared toward brainwashing you with this outdated information in order to steal your money. You must always remember that you will never learn the truth about the fastest and most powerful way to lose weight and burn fat from any health, fitness, or bodybuilding magazine. The unfortunate truth is that they are money hungry businesses with the primary goal of making money, and they continue to do so by selling you magazines and various products. If they were ever to teach you the truth about the most superior ways to get in shape, they would sell one magazine that clearly explained the truth to you, and that would be the end of their business. Unfortunately, due to the fact that these magazines are run by businesspeople with the ultimate goal of continually increasing profits, they have no desire at all in teaching you the truth, but rather, they purposefully send you on a wild goose chase for the truth by offering you outdated, ancient knowledge that only offers extremely limited results - in contrast to the newest, most advanced and powerful form of exercise that is kept secret. It is no wonder that when the health, fitness, and bodybuilding industry is at its most profitable point in history, our nation has the highest obesity rate of all time.
Think about it, folks. Your grandparents were using aerobic exercise (cardio) and dieting to lose weight and burn fat. Do you truly think the science of exercise and fitness hasn't progressed since then? Every aspect of life and every form of technology and scientific understanding has come light years since the days of our grandparents, so don't you think it's quite probable that far more advanced methods of losing weight and burning fat have been developed since then?
Fortunately, there is indeed a revolutionary new way of exercising that burns fat and sheds unwanted pounds faster than all other forms of exercise while simultaneously tightening and toning your body, but you will never learn it from any health, fitness, or bodybuilding magazine. If you're tired of endless hours of cardio that only offer limited results at best while wasting away precious muscle mass and thereby severely lowering your metabolism, if you're fed up with starvation diets that drain your energy, leave you feeling hungry and grumpy all day, shut down your metabolism, and put your health at risk, and if you've had enough of being lied to by greedy businesspeople who take your money and try to pass off ancient information as the current truth, then step into the 21st century of exercise science and begin your path to losing weight and burning fat faster than you ever have before while tightening and toning your body and avoiding all of the negative side effects associated with cardio/aerobics and dieting. It's time for you to finally learn the truth and liberate yourself from the deception of greedy businesspeople.
I've been active in the health and fitness field as a researcher and practitioner for 17 years, attended college for exercise physiology, and worked for two of the most well known international health and fitness clubs in the world, and I can honestly confess I have never in all that time seen even one person teach this revolutionary new form of exercise - and trust me when I say it is far beyond the ancient technology of cardio/aerobics. Whatever direction you follow, I truly hope for your success in all of your fitness goals.
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