And by doing it a little differently, I am referring to the fact that I am taking a different approach to my own fat loss and dieting strategy than I have in past years. Perhaps a bit of an experiment of sorts. One thing that we often hear talked and written about is how recovery is obviously going to be at least somewhat compromised on a caloric deficit when compared to eating in a caloric surplus. I've written about this a number of times myself and I still believe this is true. You simply don't have the same recuperative resources when your calories are lower. However, I think what's happened as a consequence is that there has become a wide... read more 12 comments

Putting It All Together The take home message here is not that there is no place for steady state cardio, or that you should only be doing interval training. The best course of action is to use both forms of cardio. An overemphasis on either will result in less than optimal results. If you're just starting out, I'd caution you from jumping right into an intense interval training workout. Rather, you should spend some time building up a baseline of cardiovascular fitness with steady state cardio. From that point you can start to do some lower intensity intervals. For example, you might walk on the treadmill at 3.0mph for your active recovery and power walk at 4.0mph for your sprints. With... read more 2 comments

Efficiency sure sounds good, but when we're trying to lose fat, we want to be inefficient fat burners. Look at a lot of physique competitors – they start off with 30 minutes of cardio three to four times a week and by the time they're done dieting, they're up to 60 minutes twice a day and even more in some cases. Did the 30 minutes four times per week stop producing results? Did they become more efficient? But what about the often heralded fat-burning zone? I'm afraid to say that the fat-burning zone is completely overrated. Did you know that as you sit here reading this article, you are in the fat-burning zone? Do you think you're burning lots of... read more 1 comments

I thought I'd post an article that i recently wrote for a print magazine on intervals and fat loss. I'll just post the first third of the article today and then will update with the other two thirds in subsequent blog posts. What's the first thing most people think of when they think of fat loss? Cardio. Yep, hour upon hour of boring, mind-numbing cardio. Why? Because that is what has been ingrained in our heads. You want to lose fat? Time for lots of cardio. Here's the problem – there's a reason you have to do so much of it; traditional cardio, or rather, aerobic exercise, doesn't burn many calories to begin with. But the elliptical says you burned 1000... read more 2 comments

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