How To Lose Weight Quickly #1 Why You Just Dont Need Cardio
When people come to me to learn how to lose weight quickly
, they are usually pretty surprised to find out that Im not a huge fan of traditional cardio you know, that long, slow, boring, tedious stuff. Instead, Id rather see you doing some sort of intense circuit training.
(In case you didnt know, circuit training is taking is a form of working out where you take different exercises and do them back to back to back, all without rest. So, if you had 5 exercises, youd do a set of the first one, then a set of the second one, then a set of the third one, etc, all without resting between. Once youd done a set of each exercise, take a short rest, then repeat.)
But you might be wondering why? I mean, dont you need to do cardio in order to build up your wind, have a strong heart & lungs, decrease bodyfat, etc?
Nope. Not at all.
Heres the deal to accomplish all that stuff (which, by the way, *is* super important), you have to improve your cardiovascular capabilities. And contrary to popular belief, you dont have to do cardio to do that all you have to do is breathe hard.
See, your body really has no idea what youre doing. All it really knows is how hard it has to work, and in what kinda way it has to do work.
Example.
Compare barbell squats to a leg press machine. Theres no little mechanism inside your body that triggers when you do barbell squats to let you know that youre doing squats, and to react differently to the squats than to when you do leg presses. All your body knows, is that it has to exert force to move the weight.
Well, if barbell squats and a leg press machine make you exert force in pretty much the same way (i.e. which muscles youre using, how youre using them, etc), then why do so many people me included say that squats are so much better than leg presses?
Because there are a ton of other processes involved that squats trigger your body into having to do that leg presses dont. Squats force you to support the weight on your shoulders, while leg presses dont (the weight is on a machine). Squats force you to balance, while the leg press doesnt. Squats force you utilize much of the rest of the body for stabilization, leg presses require you to just site down. Squats force you to move your body through air, vs moving a machine thats on a track.
See the difference? Squats force you to do a lot more stuff, even if you dont realize it. Thus, squats are a ton more effective.
Cardio is the same way. Your body doesnt know if youre running or on a bike or a rowing machine or doing circuit training. None of those are magic exercises that trigger your body into starting all the physiological processes that result in improved cardio conditioning.
All you have to do is breathe harder thats all the body knows. When youre breathing harder, youre working harder. When youre working harder, youre burning up more calories. And when youre burning up more calories, youre losing more weight, and youre doing it in a much quicker fashion.
So, it stands to reason that if you want to lose weight and quickly then improving your cardio is the path to get there. However, like I said, though doing traditional, long cardio just isnt the best way of doing it. Circuit training makes you breathe harder and is much more effective than boring cardio ever thought of being.
Besides, when you do intense circuit training, just like when doing squats, you end up having to do a bunch more stuff, even if you dont realize it. Stuff like:
-maintain balance and coordination on various different exercises
-be fast and explosive when youre tired and not fully rested
-not only utilize all the muscles in your body (most of the time cardio focuses just on the lower body), but be able to do it in an intense fashion
-go from being able to use one set of muscles to another set to another set to another set (this forces your individual muscle groups to recover while your body as a whole is still working)
Then theres the whole idea that youre forcing yourself to be able to be strong, explosive, work a lot, etc., when youre tired and out of breath.
All of that is stuff that plain old cardio just doesnt make you do.
See why circuit training is so much more effective, and why theyre the best way I know how to lose weight quickly?
by: Alex Smith
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