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You're being led by the blind.
Naive "experts" who's advice has kept you sweating your brains out with zero results.
Funny thing is, you probably think you're just doing the "wrong stuff". That if you try the stair master instead of the treadmill you'll get better results.
Perhaps.
But NOT likely.
Which is why the following will be a rather eye-opening experience.
Especially if your results have been bombed-out, depleted and left for dead.
I'm going to share an exercise secret with you that can change everything.
That can have you quickly burning fat.
A wickedly effective little secret that transcends type. In other words... you can STOP searching for the "perfect" exercise and add this simple secret to whatever you're currently doing.
It's the equivalent of adding rocket fuel over standard gasoline!
That exercise secret is INTENSITY.
When it comes to melting away pounds and inches of nasty flab, intensity plays a far bigger role than type. It simply requires more energy (calories) when you force your body to work harder.
When you "push" yourself.
So why are there so many die-hard advocates of low intensity exercises, such as walking?
For one thing, most people are lazy. Walking around the block is much easier than jogging.
But a second, more misleading reason, has to do with something called the "fat burning zone".
For those who haven't heard...
The fat burning zone is simply the heart rate "range" between which your body burns the most fat. Studies have shown that during slow-paced, low intensity exercises, the human body burns a greater "percentage" of fat than carbohydrates.
Many professionals have naively taken this out of context and recommended low intensity exercises like walking as the best fat burners.
This of course, is garbage.
Here's why...
You could walk for one hour and you would typically burn around 200 calories. Or you could run short sprints for half the time (30 minutes) and you would typically burn about 700 calories.
You'd find that a greater percentage of the overall calories burned during the walk would probably be fat. In other words... 100 of the total 200 calories burned may be fat. Or 50%.
While 250 of the total 700 calories burned sprinting may be fat. Or 36%.
Here's where it takes some common sense...
Even though the greater percentage would come from walking... performing the sprints would result in a far greater fat reduction in far less time.
Bottom line...
If you want to lose as much fat as possible in the least amount of time then your goal should be AMOUNT. Not percentage.
And the greater AMOUNT of fat calories would be burned during the sprints.
High intensity exercises also have the extra benefit of a longer impact on your metabolism. Meaning - after an intense workout you will continue to burn calories at a higher rate because it takes your body longer to "cool down".
This isn't a "knock" against low intensity exercises.
Hey... doing something is better than nothing.
But if your goal is to burn maximum fat in the least amount of time... then the exercise secret it INTENSITY.
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