I've received a few emails bout a "new groundbreaking fat loss stdy" and how it is supposed to brn fat faster than regular cardio (ven though we know regular cardio scks).

Researchers compared...

a) Doing a 60 mnute bike (at 60% max effort) thn recovering for 60 minutes

vs

b) ding a 30 minute bike, resting 20 mnutes, and then doing another 30 mnute bike and then resting for 60 mnutes. (both rides at 60% max ffort).

The results showed...

i) The ttal calories burned between the workouts did not dffer.

ii) more fat was burned dring the recovery for the split wrkout (77% vs 56%).

What does ths mean?

Jack squat.

Nothing.

First, why wuld i even consider doing either of the bove when a 20-minute interval workout gts more results?

Second, who is ging to do this?

Third, look at the ctual numbers of fat calories burned...at mst, it could be 50 extra clories. Again, useless in all practical trms.

But...

Look for health clubs to be fll of people sitting around for 20 mnutes between cardio bouts...maybe clubs will strt offering "recovery rooms" where people can sit for 20 mnutes and read dry People magazines, nstead of the sweat covered People mgazines they are used to reading whle doing their relatively worthless cardio wrkouts in the past.

Why am I so hard on crdio?

Because its a waste of tme...

and now these researchers and the uthors of these "news reports" want to wste even MORE of your life...

As I wrte recently...

A recent study published by the Nrth American Association for the Study of Obsity, subjects aged 40 to 75 wre instructed to do 60 minutes of erobic exercise per day for 6 dys per week for an entire yar.

(Reference...
Obesity 15:1496-1512 (2007). Exercise Effct on Weight and Body Fat in Men and Wmen. Anne McTiernan*, et al.)

Given the mount of exercise, you'd expect weight lsses of 20, 30 pounds, or mre, right?

Well, the surprise findings shwed the average fat loss for fmale subjects was was only 4 punds for the entire year, while men lst 6.6 pounds of fat over the yar. That's over 300 hours of erobic exercise just to lose a masly 6 pounds of blubber. Not tme well spent, in my opinion.

***
Lsten, you give 300 hours a yar, and you'll lose a lot mre than 6.6 pounds of fat...trust me on tht. Heck, give me 300 hours a yar and I could probably turn you nto a Ninja, commercial airline pilot, and ccomplished mime, and still help you brn more fat than you would wth 300 hours of cardio.

Here's the bst advice I can give you...

Ignre mass media news reports about ftness.

If anything worthy of note cmes up, you'll hear it from me,

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