Is Your Fat Burning Exercise Routine Keeping You Fat And Unhealthy?
By Rob Poulos, Fat Loss & Fitness Expert & Creator of ‘Fat Burning Furnace
The majority of exercisers today still rely on long duration moderate paced aerobic exercise as their primary routine to burn fat fast. But recent studies have shown that this is a big, I mean big mistake. In fact, you could say that the whole aerobics explosion of a few decades past was one of the biggest mistakes in the health and fitness industry. Why?
There are several reasons, but I’ll focus on the two main issues here. When you exercise at a moderate pace for extended periods of time (as in the typically recommended percent of your target heart rate), your body is burning fat during the exercise. While this may sound good, it’s actually bad news.
This sends a signal to your body to keep a certain amount of stored fat available for your next workout. You’re essentially telling it that it needs fat available to burn, ‘because you’ll be doing this exercise again. So while we may be burning some calories during this exercise, after the exercise is over, our body begins storing up some fat for the next workout. Obviously not what we’re looking for in terms of maximum ability to burn fat fast.
The other big concern with moderately paced aerobic exercise performed several times per week is that it trains your body (heart, lungs, muscles, etc.) to become efficient. Again, this may sound good, but what is actually happening is bad for long term health. You are working only within your existing aerobic limits, without improving your aerobic capacity.
This is important because your aerobic capacity is what determines how your body responds in times of physical, emotional, and mental stress. If you reduce your capacity for work, as you do in this type of exercise, you’re reducing your long term health, no to mention a poor chance of burning fat.
The good news is, you can reverse these effects by instead focusing your workouts on high intensity resistance training, with workouts that last 15-20 minutes on average, and can only be performed 2-3 times per week.
These workouts will burn carbohydrates instead of fat during the workout, and will cause your body to use its fat stores to replenish the burned carbs over the next 24 hours, after the workout is done! This type of work will also increase your reserve capacity and thus your ability to handle all types of stress, leading to lasting health and fitness…and 24/7 fat burning. Nice!
But the exercise must be performed correctly to be effective, and that means using sufficient intensity, and keeping your rest periods between exercises and sets down to 60 seconds or less.
The students of my Fat Burning Furnace method know this, and are reaping the benefits. When you think about how little time you have to spend compared to the typically recommended methods to get these fat burning and health creating results, it’s almost magical.
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Wow, I just read this same information the other day in a different book. I was shocked when I first read that too much cardio is actually contraindicated for heart and lung strength, but the more you think about it, the more sense it makes.
If you do short sets and reps to build bicep muscles, and if the heart is a muscle (which it is), then why wouldn’t the same practice work?
And the bit about long duration cardio teaches your body to store fat so it has fuel to perform more long duration cardio made me so mad. In the past I spent 6 to 10 hours a week at the gym and never saw any great results, and now I know why. I would’ve gotten of the treadmill a lot sooner and burned a lot more fat!
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I think that maikloe’s post should be ignored. This is interesting info about exercise… my husband keeps taliking about cardio all the time, and says that an exercise bike would be good to buy since it was when he rode his bike all the time that he maintained a great physique (I did that too). Here’s the thing: I’m willing to bet that it was the resistance of going up and down hills that kept us in shape, so even with an exercise bike, wouldn’t we need to be sure it had a resistance level feature on it, and not just cycle quickly to get the aerobic workout? We can’t always get out on our real bikes because in the fall an winter we get rain and snow.
It makes total sense that if you work out for long periods such as on a treadmill that ask you do you want to work out in a fat burning zone and you say yes then your body will burn fat only during the exercise. Once you stop then the brain tells the body we need to store more fat over the next 24 hours after the work out, because the body thinks it will need fat again for the same type of workout the next day. When you exercise for 10-15 minutes of intense muscle burning exercise, then the body burns carbs and does not tell the brain to store fat.Guess what your body continues to burn fat for the next 24 hours. Moral of the story avoid the fat burning program on your exercise machine. It will make you fat.
This is all not new. Curves gyms for women discovered this, probable about 15 years ago, and it still works well for all Curves members. 24 min of full body workout – (30 sec of high intensity resistance training and 30 sec of cardio/recovery multiply by 24 stations (hydraulic machines and recovery boards) = 24min, followed by 6 min of stretching. Absolutely fabulous, works for me and my friends.
Love reading this article. I am a Registered Dietitian and try to explain this to my clients all the time. Individuals tend to over exercise and use exercise strictly as weight loss, when nutrition is a good 85% of lifestyle change. Thanks for your knowledge!
Carly, RD
San Diego, CA
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What do you think of the “Insanity Program” style of exercise?