When you look in the mirror and decide it's time to lose those love handles and belly fat, most men and women turn to cardio workouts for fat loss. And this I mean cardio ONLY workout like jogging, biking, rowing, etc.



Let's go over three reasons why this type of workout is not best for burning fat and building your best body.

The Belief Cardio Exercise Burns More Fat Is Misconceived

When I talk about cardio exercise, I'm talking about doing an aerobic activity in your "target heart rate zone" for an extended period of time. Usually 20 minutes and beyond.

Studies have shown that exercising in this moderate zone burns the most fat. But what they fail to explain is that your body adapts by becoming more efficient at burning fat. That means you burn LESS fat with the same workout.

Teaching your body to burn less fat when exercising is not what you want to do if you want to build your best body.

Cardio Only Workouts Stop Burning Fat When The Workout Is Completed

So you go jogging for 20 minutes and your body burns fat for those 20 minutes. Then when you stop, your body stops burning fat.

To burn more fat, you end up having to do longer and longer cardio workouts. Couple this with the fact your body is becoming better at burning fat... and you are in for some LONG workouts to approach your fat loss goals.

Cardio Workouts For Fat Loss Don't Build The Athletically Muscular Body Most People Want

Even if you manage to struggle through the longer and longer cardio exercise sessions... you still might be dissappointed with the results. The fact is, if you don't ALREADY have the muscular, attractive body underneath the fat, you are not going to reveal it by losing fat. Combined with the fact that extended cardio workouts force your body to lose muscle and you'll end up looking at a thin, frail body.

This is not what most people dream of when they want to build their best body.

The fact is, to expose your best body you need to both burn ugly fat and build attractive muscle. You cannot do both with a cardio workout for fat loss. Just losing fat is not going to RESULT ion the body of your dreams. And even if it did, cardio only workouts are not the way to get the most results in the shortest period of time.