People who want to lose weight need to know this… Your program MUST have 3 components to it. Resistance training, cardio and a diet regimen, period. If your program does not have all 3 you are being ripped off. Resistance training can be done is such a fashion that you still get cardio benefit, those programs are valid and work. So high intense interval training, tabata, circuit training and things like that are perfectly acceptable.
Most people are under the impression that starving themselves will help them lose fat? Another common method is to do a bunch of ab workouts in order to try to spot-reduce the belly fat, none of which works, even a little.
In reality, you should be doing 2-3 times of resistance training per week in order to build more metabolically expensive muscle tissue. The more you have the better. A good example is bodyweight training circuits or super-sets… Another is the classic bodybuilding split with the intention of building muscle and not lose fat. Either way is fine, as long as you do additional cardio with your muslcebuilding program.
Diet programs and fads are my greatest pet peeves. I hate the fact that they can promise you 1-2 lbs of weight loss a week without exercise. That’s dangerous! You are losing muscle and water, and some fat. Then when you get off the diet you gain it all back and more because now your body is less metabolically active than it was before (less muscle).
Exercise will give you a raised metabolism which is essential for fat loss. The after effect of a workout is more important than the calories burnt during the workout. A short intense 20 minutes of resistance training is many times superior to 60 minutes of treadmill work, seriously!
So my tip to you is to find a fat loss program that works both your diet and your exercise. It should never be only a diet, trust me, once you get on a “real program” and follow it you’ll find amazing success in just 12-16 weeks.
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