How To Lose Weight Quickly #4 Work More & Breathe Less
Ok, so in other articles, Ive been talking about why circuit training is what Id recommend to anybody who wanted to know how to lose weight quickly
. But theres another characteristic of circuit training that you should know about its great for building work capacity.
What is work capacity? Well, put simply, its kinda like your gas tank. In a sorta abstract way of thinking, its the measure of how much overall work you can do. The bigger your gas tank, the more work you can do overall. You can work harder for longer, you can do more activity, stuff that used to be hard now doesnt make you tiredthat kinda thing.
And it can take a lot of work to build that bigger gas tankand youd better believe that kinda work burns calories (leading to you losing weight) like CRAZY.
But how does circuit training build more work capacity?
Simple it allows you to do more work than you normally would, while still continuing to work.
Huh?
Look at it like this lets say youre doing 4 sets of 4 exercises. You do all sets of an exercise before moving onto the next exercise. Thats 16 total sets, and 16 total rest periods.
Now lets say you do them in circuit fashion, and do a set of each exercise back to back, and only rest after youve done a set of each exercise. Now youre doing 16 sets, but only getting 4 rest periods.
Your strength workout just turned into a cardio workout because youre literally resting only 25% as much.
But why not do all sets of one exercise, but just shorten the rest periods? Because youre doing so much work for a given set of muscles within such a short period of time, that youll never recover, and you have to use such light weight, that youre not getting the true benefit you need.
(More on that in a second.)
But if you stack different exercises back-to-back, then you attack one set of muscles, then while theyre resting, youre attacking another set of muscles. Continue for each set of the circuit. But the entire time, your body is working, youre continuing to breathe heavy, and your heart and lungs are being worked into better shape.
See how much more efficient that is overall? And how much better it is for you than normal boring cardio workout plans? (And how many more calories youd burn?)
But dont think you can just stack a bunch of exercises together and call it a circuit. There is a science to it. How?
Think of this lets say you have a circuit involving nothing but barbell movements, and the exercises in the circuit are overhead presses, bent over rows, squats, deadlifts, and upright rows.
That circuit completely shoots itself (and any progress you might get out of it) in the foot. Know why? The upright rows.
When doing circuits the *right* way you should only be using one (two at the most) piece of equipmentin this case, a barbell. Well, do you really think that if your circuit involves upright rows, that youll EVER be able to use a weight that will be even REMOTELY challenging for squats or deadlifts?
Nope.
Circuits are a great way to train one of the best ways to train, in my opinion (especially for cardio, burning calories, and losing weight) but if you dont know what youre doing, youre gonna end up wasting A BUNCH of time.
by: Alex Smith
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