Fat Loss Mistakes - Boring cardio and aerobics, zzzzzz

Fat Loss Mistakes - Boring cardio and aerobics, zzzzzz

If you've been spinning your wheels trying to lose nagging body fat, it could be the "aerobic" exercise you've been sticking with that's the culprit.

Impossible, you might add. Follow us as we discuss some highly researched reasons:

3 Reasons “Aerobic” Exercise Sucks for Fat Loss

1. No “afterburn” effect.With aerobic exercise, the impact on your metabolism is virtually nil once you're done. Not good. Considering we only train for about an hour (many of us) a day, we need the other 23 hours to explain anything.

2. Too time consuming.Given the hustle and bustle of everyday life, one to two hours of exercise per day, 6-7 days per week, is simply not feasible for most of us.

3. It's monotonous.In other words, boring, boring, boring. Think about how many people you see on a treadmill or elliptical reading books and magazines. The only way most people can “force” themselves to do this is to have a conversation while doing it. Oh joy!

Fortunately, there is a better way.

Recent research shows that high-intensity interval training meets all three criteria mentioned above. Through a phenomenon called Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC), weight-bearing practitioners can

Exercise and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) show greater fat loss and in a shorter time frame (3 days, 45 minutes total/day may be sufficient) than boring steady-state cardio.

Of course, we could also fall into the flawed thinking of the fat burning zone... but we'll save ourselves that

for next time.

Inspired by Brad Howard