Today's Fat Loss Rule

by Craig Ballantyne

To lose weight, you need to boost your metabolism with interval cardio exercise and strength training. That is the fastest way to burn fat and keep your calorie burning going all day. Strength and interval workouts are the best thing going today.

To lose weight, you need to boost your metabolism with interval cardio exercise and strength training. That is the fastest way to burn fat and keep your calorie burning going all day. Strength and interval workouts are the best thing going today.

What are strength and interval workouts?

I call these workouts Turbulence Training. That's my method of doing strength training and interval training in one workout, so that you get in and out of the gym whether it's your home gym or whether it's a commercial gym. You get your workout done in 45 minutes.

Why not slow cardio? First, who has time? Second, research shows that interval training works better for cardio. And you can't build lean arms and sculpted abs with only cardio. You need some strength training. So that's why strength and intervals are best - you get more results in less time.

We start with a 5-minute bodyweight warm up and then we do strength training for 20 minutes, whether it's bodyweight training or dumbbells. Sometimes we use barbells but most people that I work with train at home so we just use dumbbells and bodyweight exercises - no fancy equipment needed.

Then we finish with 20 minutes of interval training. We are using the most efficient and effective training methods. The stuff that gets you the most results in the least amount of time. So we are not doing long, slow cardio sessions and we're not doing 5 or 6 day per week bodybuilding training programs.

It's like the old business principle - 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts - so why do endless amounts of cardio and redundant strength training exercises?

Do only what you need to do and then get out of the gym.

Don't live in the gym.

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