You heard right! EAT MORE AND DON’T DO CARDIO! Ok don’t do cardio in the traditional sense is what I mean. The slow boring 2 hour walk on the treadmill is outdated! Research has proven intervals to be king for fat burning! Interval cardio workouts are short and high intensity for periods of time. Benefits include:

• You’ll burn more calories. The more vigorously you exercise, the more calories you’ll burn — even if you increase intensity for just a few minutes at a time.

• You’ll improve your aerobic capacity. As your cardiovascular fitness improves, you’ll be able to exercise longer or with more intensity. Imagine finishing your 60-minute walk in 45 minutes — or the additional calories you’ll burn by keeping up the pace for the full 60 minutes.

• You’ll keep boredom at bay. Turning up your intensity in short intervals can add variety to your exercise routine.

• You don’t need special equipment. You can simply modify your current routine.

An example of a simple interval workout you can do at home would be running in place. It doesn’t sound like much but when done correctly it can melt that fat off in no time. Start by going a mild speed for 2 min, then do quick 30 sec short burts of as fast as you can. After the 30 sec, jog normally for 2 min. Repeat the process for a total of 5-10 min.

Now for eat more. I can tell you right now that 90% of all dieters don’t eat enough. Yup. First of all alot of those fad diets of just drinking some miracle hollywood juice or eating just cayenne peppers are full of it! So throw that out the window. Secondly the bird food mentality is way outta control. Im all for portions but not even your pet parakeet would get full with your serving. Too many times have I seen people literally starve themselves to lose weight. You lose more muscle than anything doing that! Your body goes into starvation mode and first thing that goes is muscle. Your body sees it as a liability. So I hope everyone knows at least some nutrition rules, right? Don’t all of you comment at once . A popular trend i’ve seen lately is people eating a good amount of food, but totally go for the more is better as far as working out. I’m not pointing any fingers, but if you eat 1400 calories a day, yet burn 1000. Then that should mean you have to bump up the food to fuel your body! If your body does’nt have any fuel, it will start breaking down muscle to use as fuel and start storing fat because it goes into starvation mode. Bumping up your food (whole good food) intake will fuel your fat burning furnace. I recently help a stubborn couple out with this same problem. Well the husband was the stubborn one (yes us guys can be that way at times). The wife was getting ready for a figure competition and the husband was her nutritionist. About 6 weeks out she wasn’t burning anymore fat. So the husband reduces her calories by 300. The next week the same thing nothing was lost. So again he brought it down by another 300. So now she was at 1300 calories. The next week she actually gained by 1%. So thats when he finally brokedown and asked for help. We realized she was burning about 1500 calories a day by overdoing cardio. So we bumped her calories to between 2050 to 2250. Sure enough it was as if her body was reborn again and the fat just melted away! Lesson of the story is fuel yourself properly for the goal at hand.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave em here!

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