If you want to finally burn fat but you are worried about burning muscle, I have some astonishing news about the best fat burning cardio and resistance training exercises that will set you free from fat loss plateaus without causing you to do so much cardio that you burn muscle.

I get a lot of emails from confused dieters and men and women who want to lose weight, but fear they are doing so much cardio exercise that it will cause them to burn muscle and lower their metabolism.

Information like this outrages me, because with all this confusion, it's not your fault that you are struggling with fat loss, because there are too many people trying to confuse you with science. After all, you've tried all that cardio and dieting but you're still not where you want to be.

So here's what you need to do. First, we don't need to do cardio in the first place. So that will get rid of our worries that the cardio will burn muscle. You should be using short, burst interval training workouts instead, since they help you burn belly fat in less time.

Second, it's actually hard to lose muscle. If you are doing total body resistance training workouts two or three times per week, you will not lose muscle, even if you are eating a very low calorie diet. (And you don't even need that much protein either!)

Dr. Stu is one of my long-term Turbulence Training clients, and he's been working out at 5:30am in the morning on an empty stomach for years. However, he's not doing this because there is any magic fat burning effect. He's just doing that because he is the busy father of 3 boys!

So he gets up, goes to the gym, does his resistance training workouts, and finishes off with high-intensity cardio or interval training. And his cardio workouts do not burn muscle.

In fact, he went from 15.6% down to 11.7% body fat and MAINTAINED my lean mass (and strength actually increased a little). He's working muscles he hadn't used in years, and is noticeably more muscled - that's not bad for a guy who'll turn 38 next week!

Plus, even when he travels, he's up early doing bodyweight exercises in place of cardio and to avoid losing muscle from inactivity. After all, the only real way to lose muscle is to do endless amounts of cardio, cut your calories, and avoid all resistance training.

But with the Turbulence Training bodyweight workouts, he still gets an incredible cardiovascular challenge as well as a big shock for your muscles. If you don't think you can get stronger and leaner using bodyweight exercises, think again! Bodyweight workouts work when they are based on good science and good planning.

I bet you knew all along that cardio wasn't the best way to lose fat, even though all the out of shape trainers at your gym kept telling you it was. Well, now you have something better to use to and to avoid losing muscle.

Stick with the Turbulence Training resistance workouts (even using bodyweight exercises) and interval training in place of long, slow cardio workouts, and you burn fat, not muscle.