The Truth About Fat Burning Cardio

The Truth About Fat Burning Cardio
I've received a few emails about a "new groundbreaking fat
loss study" and how it is supposed to burn fat faster than
regular cardio (even though we know regular cardio sucks).

Find out why I don't think much of this study, or the
conclusions drawn by the researchers. Needless to say, I'm
still unconvinced that long cardio should be a part of your
fat loss program.

Anyways, here is the study.

Researchers compared...
a) Doing a 60 minute bike (at 60% max effort) then
recovering for 60 minutes vs b) doing a 30 minute bike,
resting 20 minutes, and then doing another 30 minute bike
and then resting for 60 minutes. (both rides at 60% max
effort).

The results showed...

i) The total calories burned between the workouts did not
differ.

ii) more fat was burned during the recovery for the split
workout (77% vs 56%).

What does this mean?

Jack squat. Nothing.

First, why would i even consider doing either of the above
when a 20-minute interval workout gets more results?

Second, who is going to do this?

Third, look at the actual numbers of fat calories
burned...at most, it could be 50 extra calories.

Again, useless in all practical terms. But... Look for
health clubs to be full of people sitting around for 20
minutes between cardio bouts...maybe clubs will start
offering "recovery rooms" where people can sit for 20
minutes and read dry People magazines, instead of the sweat
covered People magazines they are used to reading while
doing their relatively worthless cardio workouts in the
past.

Why am I so hard on cardio? Because its a waste of time...
and now these researchers and the authors of these "news
reports" want to waste even MORE of your life...

As I wrote recently... A recent study published by the
North American Association for the Study of Obesity,
subjects aged 40 to 75 were instructed to do 60 minutes of
aerobic exercise per day for 6 days per week for an entire
year.

(Reference... Obesity 15:1496-1512 (2007). Exercise Effect
on Weight and Body Fat in Men and Women. Anne McTiernan*,
et al.)

Given the amount of exercise, you'd expect weight losses of
20, 30 pounds, or more, right?

Well, the surprise findings showed the average fat loss for
female subjects was was only 4 pounds for the entire year,
while men lost 6.6 pounds of fat over the year.

That's over 300 hours of aerobic exercise just to lose a
measly 6 pounds of blubber. Not time well spent, in my
opinion.

Listen, you give me 300 hours a year, and you'll lose a lot
more than 6.6 pounds of fat...trust me on that.

Heck, give me 300 hours a year and I could probably turn
you into a Ninja, commercial airline pilot, and
accomplished mime, and still help you burn more fat than
you would with 300 hours of cardio.

Here's the best advice I can give you... Ignore mass media
news reports about fitness. If anything worthy of note
comes up, you'll hear it from me.

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