Are you frustrated by a lack of weight loss results?
Are you spending too much time in the gym during your workouts and not getting the fat loss you deserve?
It drives me crazy to hear about people working really hard but getting no results.
But I see people in the gym everyday that are doing the same workout and getting nowhere.
You can see the look of frustration and the dread of even doing the workout in their eyes.
I hope this doesn't describe you and your fat loss situation. If it does, let's take a look at some of the best fat loss tips and workout solutions to get you back on the fat loss track.
1. CB's Top 3 Training Tips for Fat Loss
i) Train with intensity. Yes it takes a lot of effort to do 45 minutes of cardio, but that is low-intensity exercise (since you can do it for 45 minutes straight). Instead, you have to increase the intensity of your efforts.
That means the following...
ii) Don't rely on slow, steady, long workouts of cardio. Use intervals instead.
iii) Don't use high reps for fat loss. Use low reps instead.
You want to increase the intensity of your training to put "metabolic turbulence" on your muscles.
So you need to use moderately heavy weights or advanced bodyweight exercises and interval training to apply this metabolic disturbance and elicit a significant increase in post-exercise energy expenditure.
However, no matter how well you adhere to these training tips, you will not succeed without getting serious about your nutrition. Of course, that's why I go to Dr. Chris Mohr for professional fat loss nutrition guidance.
With the right training intensity and nutrition, you will "get your hormones in order". Eating poorly can decrease testosterone (in males) and increase insulin in both men and women. This will cause fat storage. At the same time, too much cardio and stress can increase cortisol.
If you have high cortisol levels, increased insulin, and lower than normal testosterone, you are in big trouble when it comes to having a good body.
You need to improve your hormone levels to stimulate fat loss. In fact, I think that even Pilates & Yoga can help you lose fat when combined with good nutrition - because these exercise techniques may be able to reduce stress and could bring those hormone levels back to normal.
But for the fastest, guaranteed methods of fat loss, my weapon of choice is the more intense interval training and resistance training in the Turbulence Training program.
Bottom line: While cardio is focused on breaking down the body, strength training, yoga, and Pilates all focus on building the body. Stick with body-builders.
2. The 3 Biggest Fat Loss Workout Mistakes
i) Using only long slow cardio. There is definitely mixed research support for long, slow cardio. Most studies will show you two things:
a) Doing only aerobic training (without proper nutrition) will get you only a small amount of weight loss - even over very long periods of time.
b) Proper nutrition plus cardio will help you lose weight, but you will also lose lean body mass - and you won't end up with the body you want (or deserve).
Plus, long, slow cardio just takes too much time up from your schedule. Stick to interval training instead. You will get better results in half the time.
ii) The second mistake is sticking with the same program too long.
In most gyms, everyday is Groundhog Day (just like the movie).
You'll see the same men and women doing the exact workout that they did 2 days. I see men and women using the exact same weight circuit as they did literally the day before, using the same weight, the same crappy form, and showing the same lack of interest.
These people are much better off doing fewer workouts following a structured plan of increased intensity. Don't trade quality for quantity.
iii) The 3rd mistake...Doing high rep-low weight isolation exercises.
Exercises such as triceps kickbacks, concentration curls, side raises, and ab crunches are almost a complete waste of time.
The men and women that use isolation exercises will not make any improvements. Unfortunately, this is the approach taken by a lot of people in the gym.
But if you learn that more intense workouts, and more intense cardio methods like intervals are the key, then you'll continue to lose fat and weight. So don't make these fat loss mistakes in your fat burning program!
Human beings upon a certain point in our awareness begin to acquire the need to create efficiency in all areas of our lives which allows us to make certain repetitive tasks simple. Then as tasks are made simple, some may choose to slip back into unconscious behaviors once these tasks are mastered.
Mindfulness when it relates to health and the goal of reducing your body fat is something that needs to be a conscious act. It should also remain a conscious process for the duration of your life. As we all go through the different season's in our lives many elements will change to reflect our needs and wants during each of these time periods.
And during each of these periods of our lives we need to stay focused on the adjustments needed with our intake of the correct quantity and quality of the foods we choose to balance out our "G-Flux." A term referring to the level of calories you input relative to the energy you output.
Things to consider when determining your calorie intake daily would be the type of body structure you have. Is your body a thin, medium or heavy bone structure determined by the circumference of wrist measurements against your total bodyweight and height?
Are you in a profession that requires the physical activity of a construction worker, fire fighter or mover? Or does your occupation require you to sit in meetings, drive long periods or at a computer desk all day?
Do your personal hobbies reflect physical activities like tennis, running, swimming or are they more mental skills pursuit's like chess, writing poetry, research, etc.? Your body types, activity levels at work and play all help to determine "G-flux" requirements and are used to determine correct quantities of food that are eaten for your particular situation.
Next are the decisions to pick the best quality food you can afford when purchasing your foods. It currently, on many levels in our world today, is not the same world as yesterday. This in combination with several factors beyond this articles scope, regarding food quality in retail environments and the marketing of foods to the public.....are the very noticeable feelings of being lead off course regarding "healthy" food choices.
With large corporation's involvement and profits on the increase, health is on the decline. Which intern helps to "pimp" of all kinds of pills, for all kinds of illnesses related to poor health that in most cases can be prevented and are caused by over eating poor quality foods.
4 steps you must take along with understanding your G-Flux are:
1. The 3,000 years ago rule, if it wasn't on the planet that long ago.....don't eat it.
2. I f it wasn't brought to market in a bushel or basket by someone that didn't pick it from a vine or from off a tree or out of the ground....don't eat it.
3. If it's wrapped in plastic, full additives, coloring, flavoring and can sit on the shelf with out a spoil "eat by" date....don't eat it.
4. If the labels have multi syllable words from beginning to end in the ingredients portion of the label.....don't eat it
Like a piece of art work your body and your mind can be the most beautiful creative tools you own. And when you care for your body and utilize it to your fullest expression, all of us can then benefit from the gifts you were given.
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Craig Ballantyne has sinced written about articles on various topics from lose 10 pounds, Fitness and Fat Loss. Craig Ballantyne writes for Men's Health, Men's Fitness,and other magazines, showing you how to burn fat fast with his trademarked Turbulence Training