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Lose Up To 30 Pounds In 30 Days
By admin | August 4, 2008
“Lose up to 30 pounds in 30 days.” Sounds great, doesn’t it? If you need to lose weight, who wouldn’t want to lose 30 pounds in 30 days?
That’s probably why you hear this phrase all the time in weight loss infomercials for exercise gadgets, cardio programs and weight loss pills.
And you read about it in all the fitness magazine ads. But if you read that phrase carefully and think about it you’ve got a problem.
The key phrase is ‘up to’ in that sentence. They are giving you a maximum weight loss number of 30 pounds, not a minimum.
In other words, you could lose nothing, or even gain fat, and they’d be living up to their advertising slogan! Pretty sneaky, isn’t it?
Enough! No more! No mas! Stop!
It’s time to through all the exercise gimmicks and gadgets overboard and start focusing on what really works when it comes to burning fat, building muscle and getting rock hard six pack abs.
It’s not going to happen by squeezing a plastic contraption between your thighs while you’re watching four hours of television each night!
Look, I know that losing weight can be very frustrating. Most people give up before they see the results they want. They do this for a few reasons.
First, they get caught up in the advertising so they expect outrageous results right away. So when they don’t completely transform themselves in two weeks they give up.
They want results now.
This is how companies get away with phrases like “lose UP TO 30 pounds in 30 days.”
Second, they don’t have the right fitness information. Here are some fitness tips you can use to help stay on track.
Stay off the scale: The fact that you can gain muscle and lose fat is one of the reasons I stress to people not to follow the scale.
Body composition (% body fat) and how you look in the mirror is a lot more important than what the scale says. The scale lies.
You could train hard and eat right and build five pounds of muscle and lose five pounds of fat and what will the scale say? That you still weigh the same.
This leads to frustration, even though you’ve made good progress.
Reduce your calories gradually: If you are looking to lose fat, don’t make huge calorie cuts.
You’ll be hungry all the time and eventually you’ll destroy any progress you made by binging. If you cut your calories gradually your body can get used to the reduction and you won’t feel like your starving all the time.
Vary your caloric intake: This is another way to outsmart your body and continue to lose body fat without lowering your metabolism.
By varying you caloric intake every few days instead of eating the exact same amount of calories every day, you can keep the starvation mechanism in check and continue to burn fat.
Train with weights: Training with weights does a number of things for your fat loss. Weight training itself burns calories.
In addition, unlike aerobic exercise, weight training increases the calories you burn at rest for up to 39 hours after your workout.
Incorporate high intensity interval training into your workout.
A brief explanation of this training is that you do just that - train in intervals, by alternating a brief period of exercise with a brief period of rest.
And the overall length of your workout are much briefer in duration than your typical aerobic sessions.
A great interval training program is jumping rope. You may need to practice a bit on this one.
After a brief warm up, I will jump rope as fast as I can for about 10-20 seconds, followed by a slower cadence for about half a minute.
This form of interval training is brutal and will get your heart rate up fast! You won’t last long on this program.
Always warm up before starting your intervals. If you’re not in the best of shape break into it lightly, starting with more low or moderate intensity cardio.
You might also want to check with your doctor. No sense in getting hurt right when you start your interval training.
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