You Decide Do You Want To Eliminate Fat Cells or Just Shrink Them?

January 27, 2010 03:55 PM

Once again it is proven – Long duration exercise is bad for your health, increases your body’s need to store fat, and increases your chances of heart disease.

A new 10 year study was just released in January of 2010 from Mayo Clinic, with 6000 people involved in the study.  The findings: People doing long duration exercise to lose weight and stay in shape may be able to lose pounds and get themselves into the correct BMI chart ratio, but their body fat percentage was actually going up.

This study backs up a previous Harvard Study which showed intensity exercise was 15X more effective at reducing fat than long duration exercise.

A case in point;

One of my clients, a 48 year old lady 5′ 8′ 140 pounds had lost 45 pounds by running about 6 miles per day religiously for 8 months.  She looked really good, and she was now well within normal for the BMI.  However she was totally shocked at her physical when they measured her body fat and she had 36% body fat.  Oh and one more thing her lung capacity was only 70% of what normal would be for a person of her age. She was an avid runner and looked fit. How could this be?

How could she lose all that weight and still have roughly the same amount of body fat? Because the long duration exercise was telling her body she needed the fat to be ready for the type of exercise she was doing. As a result she lost muscle weight and water  weight, not fat.  This type of long duration exercise actually causes your body to store fat, not lose it.

That is not the worst news:

When you exercise with long duration or aerobic exercise exclusively and do happen to lose pounds, it is weight you will easily gain back. And to make matters worse, you never lost fat cells the first time so now you just added more pounds of fat to your body.

This is the heartbreaking cycle so many people get into when trying to lose weight. Normally called Yo-Yo dieting or roller coaster dieting. You lose weight only to put it all back on and then some. Sound Familiar?

My motto for life has always been, “Truth Produces Trust”  unfortunately most people who have wanted to lose weight have not been told the truth about what to eat or how to exercise, How to lose fat weight effectively and for life.

Your Solution:

Just like my client above when she heard the news about her body fat content she came to me to understand why. I told her, “It is simple you need to exercise to burn and eliminate fat.” Now she already had a decent diet, I did tell her to forget about the low fat and fat free crap, and include more metabolism boosting foods instead.

We instructed her to choose 3 of the exercises from the Doctor Directed Weight Loss Program list, to concentrate on speed and not duration, and plan on about 12 minutes per day.  After her first session she called me, and said “she couldn’t believe how short of breath she was, her lungs actually hurt and she never felt that even when running 6 miles per day.” Now she did push herself more than needed, but that is the point long duration exercise teaches that you only push yourself to about 50 or 60% of capacity which your body then registers as that is all you need.

To burn and eliminate fat you need to think high intensity. Your goal is not to burn fat during exercise it is to boost your metabolism so you burn fat all day long.  Done correctly your time needed is about 7 – 12 minutes per day.

Bottom line:

Within 4 weeks this client had lost 9 more pounds – but her body fat content was down to only 20%.  To do the math she actually gained muscle, toned up her body, and lost fat – She lost 24 pounds of FAT, and actually gained 15 pounds of muscle.  Now she was a fit 131 pound healthy lady with peace that her weight would not come back on. She was in control!

You Can Too.