Why Cardio Can Make You Stay Fat

Do you follow all the rules in order to lose weight? Do you perform some quality cardio exercises more hours than you are required to do it to burn calories? Do you always make sure you are in the "fat-burning" zone?

If you are living this kind of lifestyle, you are in big trouble!

Why Is Cardio Exercise Making You Fat?

Here is one scary trend that others fail to see - people are trying to spend many hours in treadmills or bikes but in the end, they gain more weight rather that lose some. So, what else can you do if you are not seeing any results by walking and running daily? On the other hand, why is that when you reduce the amount of cardio slimming down is just so easy?

This is because you need to do too many cardio exercises in order to lose fat.

You Just Cannot Beat Your Programming

Cardio exercise can guarantee you results in a short period but the effect can also be shortlived as wellCardio exercise is a kind of exercise that requires many repetitions. It is easy for our body to adjust to this kind of exercise. It does not really matter how much effort you put into doing the exercise, what matters is what your body does with it.The only way to lose more fat from cardio is to do more amounts of cardio.Aside from it not being practical, it may also have negative effects on you.Doing repetitive cardio exercise can result to fats being stored in your hormonal system. It is known that it is easy for your body to store some fats in times of crisis. Spending many hours on cardio each day has the same effect as well. In nature, you would only be on the move for a period of time. If you had a threat to your survival: to your food source, your safety, or your shelter.

How to Shed Fat and Keep It Off

Doing a functional fitness routine with squats, lunges, bends, pulls, pushes or twists will be a great help.Make this routine a daily habit for you and mix different routines or add more fat loss motivation to what you are doing.Do not eliminate cardio - it will be to your advantage if you are training your anaerobic fitness system ( a routine that will be great both for your metabolism and muscle growth) and aerobic (which is good for your heart and overall health but not good enough for fat loss). Some cardio training can be a great combination to your weight and functional training like interval training, which is great for weight loss and exercise. For instance, set aside some time to run for 20 minutes then jog or walk for recovery. This and other variations of interval training should be done in order for your training to become effective. You can do this by changing the time of the routine or gaps between the routine and the recovery and so on.

You can do 20 minutes cardio each week 2-3 times just like what I do - which are all interval based. I combine it with 30-45 minutes weight training 3-4 times each week. If you do this, you can get lean fast!

Remember -

Life is now. Do not waste yours on the treadmill.

Oh - and Press play.

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