300 Workout Versus the Bodyweight 500 For Fat Loss

300 Workout Versus the Bodyweight 500 For Fat Loss
The 300 workout from Men's Health magazine was the most
popular workout of 2007. It combined fat burning bodyweight
exercises with muscle building weight training exercises to
help men (and women) build Greek God (and Goddess) bodies.

So what is going to be the most popular workout in 2008?

Well, it looks like another fat burning, muscle building,
body sculpting workout, and again it comes from Men's
Health magazine.

The programs are similar in name, but much different in
design.

I designed the Bodyweight 500 workout for the Men's Health
magazine website. So far, it has helped men burn over
40,000 pounds of belly fat in only 4 months (At the time of
this article.)

Many guys are reporting up to 20 pounds of weight loss in
only 8 weeks. The results are outrageous. Even I am shocked
by the results.

So let's talk about the similarities and differences
between the two workouts.

First, and most importantly, I want to state clearly, for
the record, that I did not invent the 300 workout. Never
claimed to. All I did was film the exercises for Men's
Health magazine and Youtube.

That said, the 300 workout was described in the original
Men's Health article as a "rite of passage".

I look at the 300 workout as being like a powerlifting
event. You only do that once in a while. Not every week,
let alone everyday. You need to get really "psyched up" for
that.

The 500 is different, because in each of the weeks
preceding the 500 workout, there was an incrementally more
difficult bodyweight challenge, starting with the lowly,
yet still tough for many, bodyweight 100 in week 1.

Then depending on your fitness, it could take you 4-8 weeks
to work your way up to the 500.

Its kind of, and I emphasize "kind of", like training for a
marathon, or better yet, a 10k road race.

When training for a marathon or 10k, you do your regular
workouts during the week and then a long run on the weekend.

Similar to what we are doing here...2 workouts during the
week, and then a bodyweight challenge on the weekend.

Similar to the 300, but different, and unique.

Lots of fun though.

The main lesson I've learned from doing these types of
workouts is that so many men and women - mostly men, but
women too - love the challenge aspect of the program
because it keeps them motivated and interested.

Doing the same thing week in and week out is easy for the
dedicated, but for those easily distracted by shiny
objects, knowing that you have a new challenge each week -
and one that you can compare slightly to the week prior or
to a friend - keeps you much more motivated to keep going
on a fat loss program.

You can gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. All you
need to do is focus on resistance training with free
weights or your bodyweight, and do interval training
instead of long slow cardio workouts.

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