The truth about cardio for fat loss is that it WILL work
for some people.
However, most of those people are generally younger men,
you know those guys who are in university or just out of
and, therefore, also have lots of time to train, so that's
what generally works best for.
It probably works for fewer people than it doesn't work
for. In fact, some researchers/trainers believes cardio can
make a woman's thighs even fatter.
So if you've found your upper body getting skinnier but
your thighs getting fatter after doing a cardio program,
then I guarantee cardio is not the best fat burning workout
for you!
Unfortunately, cardio simply does not work for most of the
people reading this article, and in some of the recent
research that I've studied, came across, I found one study
from the UK that showed that when some people do cardio,
they actually have an increase in their appetite.
Now to be fair, some people in this study lost a lot of
weight. But some people in the study also gained weight.
Imagine that! Doing exercise and gaining weight. How
frustrating!
They did this study over about eight weeks and found that
some people actually gained weight over an eight week
cardio weight loss study and when they looked at what these
people ate, they found that cardio made these people
hungrier and increased their appetite, so if that's you
then cardio is not the way to go.
Another study that I came across recently showed that in
men and women that had - these men and women did an hour of
cardio six days per week for an entire year and they only
lost six pounds of body weight on average, so that's
obviously not a very good investment of their time.
Again, the research really isn't too supportive of long,
slow cardio for fat loss and it's certainly not as good as
interval training.
There's been two head-to-head studies of cardio and
intervals and the one is almost 15 years old now and it's
from Canada and it showed that the people on the interval
training lost more body fat and then just in late 2006, a
study came out of Australia and it showed that a group of
women doing a 15-week study, those that did 40 minutes of
slow cardio three days per week didn't lose any weight, but
those doing 20 minutes of interval training three days per
week actually lose belly fat.
That is the truth about cardio when it comes to research
and fat loss studies and it just shows you it's not as good
as most people think.
Certainly, in the real world we see that because there's a
lot of people that don't change their bodies even though
they do six or seven hours of cardio per week. Interval
training does work better for fat loss in a short amount of
workout time.
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