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If you’re a woman looking to lose fat, your first thought is that you need to do more cardio. And of course, you’d never want to do the same workout as your husband, boyfriend, or brother, right?

But what if I told you that the differences between men and women actually PROVE that both genders should use the same type of fat loss workout? Wouldn’t you be surprised?

Now I know the guys reading this article are thinking, “I don’t want to do long, slow, boring cardio.” But that’s fine, because you’re about to discover why both men AND women should ditch the long slow cardio and switch to short, burst workouts for fat loss.

First, let’s take a look at the scientific differences between men and women. Most folks will agree that women tend to have more body fat than men, and that it’s even more difficult for women to lose fat – especially from their thighs – due to hormones.

But did you know that when men and women do cardio exercise at the same intensity that women burn significantly more fat during the workout?

For example, if you put a woman and a man on a cardio machine and had them exercise at 70% of their best cardio intensity, the woman would burn proportionately more fat than the man. That should be an advantage to women, but it isn’t.

Let’s think about what that means for a second. Mainstream fitness magazines keep on telling us to do lots and lots of cardio for fat loss. But if women burn more fat than men during regular cardio workouts, why do they still have more fat on their bodies?

If “fat burning cardio” was the answer to our fat loss problems, women should have LESS fat than men! But that’s simply not the case. Strike one against cardio.

Time to throw another fastball and get strike two against long, slow, boring cardio. For this one, we go to the scientific journal, Obesity, and take a look at a study where men and women did one hour of cardio per day, six days per week, for one year.

Add it up. That’s 300 total hours of cardio. You’d sure get through a lot of magazines and every song on your Ipod after doing 300 hours of cardio. Now most so-called “fitness experts” would tell you that you’re going to lose a lot of weight with that much cardio.

But what did the science show? It found that the average fat loss was only 5 pounds (men lost 6 pounds and women lost an average of 4 pounds). So that’s about 50-60 hours of cardio just to lose one pound! I’d get fired immediately for terrible results like that.

And there was practically no difference between men and women. Both genders seemed to waste their time on cardio equally well. What a shame. I bet those subjects wished they had those 300 hours back.

So now we have cardio in the hole, let’s get strike three by taking a look at what works better for fat loss. For this, we go to an Australian research study that compared one group of women who did three 20-minute interval training workouts per week against a second group of women who did three 40-minute cardio sessions per week.

The researchers found that the women who exercised less (the interval training group) lost significantly MORE belly fat than the women who exercised twice as long (the slow cardio group). Strike three for cardio, you’re out.

The Australian scientists believe that men would have the same type of results, and my personal research and experience proves this. When men and women use short, burst workouts including both resistance training and interval training, they can lose up to 33 pounds of fat in just 12 weeks.

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