At one time or another while exercising people come to the crappy realization that doing that hour of training and burning that lousy couple hundred calories makes them want to leave this planet on an overdose of krispy cream and double downs. So should you give up now?
The truth is if you think that the direct benefit of training is the calories burnt while working out your in trouble. Everyone born circa 80's or older knows the old 'fat burning zone' & 'high rep toning' bologna getting everyone no where fast (well actually probably slow).
HALLELUJAH!!!
Metabolic conditioning. If you know me personally you would know that I disdain steady pace cardio. So when all of a sudden people and sources I respected started to say that not only can get better cardiovascular training done by interval circuits, you can dramatically increase your resting metabolic rate for hours even days after I was elated. Then these people said you can do all that and do it in a fraction of the time I almost blew my top. I have hated doing cardio, training people to do cardio and have never really been successful at cardiovascular focused training until this turning point in my life.
WHY DOESN'T EVERYONE KNOW THIS BY NOW????
Over the last couple of years I have turned my cardio training around. Intense intervals of weights, sprints, spinning, ropes, kettlebells, calisthenics... the awesome list just keeps getting bigger. Adjust the work and rest ratio to suit my level and the length of the interval to focus on a specific effect and wammoo I am a cardio junkie. But why isn't everyone doing this?... I love dynamic strength training, I love pushing my BPM max, buckets of sweat, gasping for air.... ohhh right I'm a little messed up. The average person probably doesn't know how to do this, nor do they have the motivation to do it on their own.
I INVITE YOU TO FALL IN LOVE WITH CARDIO AGAIN!
All of our clients at UTC do high intensity intervals of some sort. And lately we have started to add a specific metabolic conditioning class to our schedule. There are no more excuses. Bust up some fat cells, use that glute muscle for something more then a cushion and come learn how cardio can actually work for a change!
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