“On Sunday 12th October, I was down at Leeds Castle in Kent, helping out with the Cancer Research Race For Life. As you may know if you’ve participated in any of these fun runs across the UK, the Charity Event has being going strong for quite some time now and due to the fact that one of my close friends has recently been diagnosed with cancer I like to show my support as much as I can.
Now those of you who know me will know that I’ve made plenty of guest appearances presenting at charity events but none as big as this one.
What an amazing turnout!
There must have been well over 2,000 runners all showing their support for the charity. I’ve certainly never presented to this amount of runners before and it gave me a real buzz to teach the official “race for life” warm up to all these enthusiastic runners.
But whilst I was up on the stage teaching my warm up, looking across the sea of 2,000 runners following my every move, something struck me!
(And no, it wasn’t a rotten tomato thrown by a fun runner…)
One of the things I noticed about these runners was that they weren’t particularly lean.
They certainly weren’t fat mind you, but considering that a lot of the runners (that I spoke to) had been training for this special 10k charity run for a good few months, some even running 5 nights a week, you’d expect them all to be super-leaner.
They weren’t. The reason?
Like I’ve been telling my online newsletter readers for some time now, long, slow steady state workouts are not the most efficient way to get rid of fat. Sure, they’ll give you great stamina, great endurance (which is what every long distance runner needs) but they won’t burn as much fat as you might think.
In fact, any kind of long, slow, cardio, which is what you see most people doing in the gym day in, day out is NOT the best way to burn bodyfat and I’ve met very few people who have successfully used this method to burn bodyfat.
Research shows if you want to lose stomach fat, or any other fat for that matter, you MUST increase the intensity of your workout by using both resistance training and interval training.
Why?
To burn more calories long AFTER the workout has finished, that’s why!
You see, when you exercise with intervals and resistance training, your body uses far more calories in the hours AFTER exercise than it would if you did traditional cardio and lifted lighter weights.
Here at Evolution we call this the “H.I.T Method” and it will help you lose that stubborn bodyfat and gain more muscle in less time than if you were doing your long, slow boring cardio that you may have done in the past.
My “HIT” method that I use with all my clients combines resistance training and intervals in ONE workout, so that you get in and out of the gym whether you’re working out at home or at your local health club in 45 minutes max.
If you want a fun, fast fat-burning workout, but don’t want to spend 3 hours at it then try out my H.I.T workout below:
Skipping, pushups, Lunges, Crunches, squat and jump, skipping. Perform 20 seconds of an activity then rest for 20 seconds. Repeat until all 6 exercises are done. This is 1 circuit of 4 minutes. Rest for 2 minutes then repeat 3-4 circuits for a full fat burning workout.
Give it a go, put some “HIT” into your workouts and let me know how it goes and remember, without fat burn intervals, you might never burn bodyfat!
There’s a thought!”
Sam
PS Did you know that the “HIT Method” forms only one half of my H.I.T & RUN Training philosophy? To learn more about the HIT & RUN system, then visit http://www.evolutionfitnessandnutrition.com/why_us.html
Sam Winkworth (CPT, SPN, KCAS) is the Fitness Director & Owner Of Evolution based in Sevenoaks and is currently the only coach in the area who can offer a 100% full money back guarantee on all his services and systems. For a FREE subscription to Sam’s fatloss newsletter visit [http://www.evolutionfitnessandnutrition.com] or email sam@evolutionfitnessandnutrition.com for more advice on fatloss strategies that work.
