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		<title>Fasted Cardio Research and Bodyweight Cardio Workout</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;re going to cover one of the biggest myths in fitness. The one that says: &#8220;You should do cardio on an empty stomach to burn more fat.&#8221; I bet you know where this is going&#8230;after all, I just called it a myth. Well, first we have to go all the way over to Italy, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/101BodyweightExercises/"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-9080" title="june2010_bwcardio" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/june2010_bwcardio.jpg" alt="june2010 bwcardio Fasted Cardio Research and Bodyweight Cardio Workout" width="107" height="155" /></a>Today we&#8217;re going to cover one of the biggest myths in fitness. The one that says:</p>
<p>&#8220;<em><strong>You should do cardio on an empty stomach to burn more fat.</strong></em>&#8221;</p>
<p>I bet you know where this is going&#8230;after all, I just called it a myth.</p>
<p>Well, first we have to go all the way over to Italy, to hear from researchers who had a study published in the International Journal of Sports Nutrition Exercise and Metabolism (21:48-54, 2011).</p>
<p>The Italian researchers wanted to see what would happen when eight healthy young men did the following workouts:</p>
<p><strong>Workout A: </strong>36 minutes of slow cardio at 65% maximum heart rate in the morning without eating</p>
<p><strong>Workout B: </strong>36 minutes of slow cardio at 65% maximum heart rate in the morning AFTER a small meal</p>
<p><strong>The RESULTS?</strong><br />
24-hours after exercise, the results found that eating before cardio increased both calorie burning AND fat burning.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s right, eating before the workout increased fat burning in the 24-hours after exercise.</p>
<p>The scientists concluded that &#8220;fasting before exercise does not enhance lipid utilization; rather, physical activity after a light meal is advisable.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>BOTTOM LINE:</strong><br />
The truth about fasted cardio is that it is NOT a magical way to boost fat burning.</p>
<p><strong>But the REAL TRUTH about cardio in general is this:</strong></p>
<p>You&#8217;re not going to get the best results from slow cardio, fasted or fed. We&#8217;ve covered that dozens of times in our TT newsletters here, and you already know to skip it and use interval training or bodyweight exercises instead.</p>
<p>For example, you could try this, the infamous 5 rounds of 5 minutes from the <strong><a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/101BodyweightExercises/">TT Bodyweight Cardio 3 program</a></strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Day 3 – Workout B</strong><br />
• Start with the general bodyweight warm-up circuit<br />
• Do each exercise for 1 minute and then move to the next exercise without rest.<br />
• Rest 1 minute at the end of each round before moving to the next round.</p>
<p>Round #1<a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/101BodyweightExercises/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-9081" title="june2010_bwcardio" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/june2010_bwcardio1.jpg" alt="june2010 bwcardio1 Fasted Cardio Research and Bodyweight Cardio Workout" width="107" height="155" /></a><br />
• Jumping Jacks<br />
• Bodyweight Squats<br />
• T-Pushups (alternate sides)<br />
• Repeated Vertical Jumps<br />
• Prisoner Lunges</p>
<p>Round #2<br />
• Pushup<br />
• Prisoner Squat<br />
• Squat Thrust<br />
• Duck Under<br />
• Burpee</p>
<p>Round #3<br />
• Seal Jump<br />
• Spiderman Climb<br />
• Get Up<br />
• Side-Step<br />
• Run in Place</p>
<p>Round #4<br />
• Split Shuffle<br />
• Side to Side Jump<br />
• Side Plank (30 seconds per side)<br />
• Total Body Extension<br />
• Run in Place</p>
<p>Round #5<br />
• Seal Jump<br />
• Close-Grip Pushup<br />
• Lateral Lunge<br />
• Mountain Climber<br />
• Side-Step</p>
<p>Get the complete exercise photos and descriptions, along with the rest of the Bodyweight Programs on sale t<a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/101BodyweightExercises/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-9082" title="BWC1000" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BWC1000.jpg" alt="BWC1000 Fasted Cardio Research and Bodyweight Cardio Workout" width="111" height="155" /></a>his week only at this <a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/101BodyweightExercises/"><strong>special bodyweight workout website</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Burn fat WITHOUT slow boring fasted cardio,</p>
<p>Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS</p>
<p><em><strong>PS &#8211; Just say no to slow boring cardio on an empty stomach.</strong></em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Truth About Fasted Cardio will be told this week, thanks to some new cardio research from Italy (of all places). But first, I&#8217;m back from Tampa… There for Joel’s b-day, but tough to leave&#8230;hanging out with Joel Marion, Vince &#38; Flavia Del Monte, and Roman Fitness Systems was fun and inspiring&#8230;can&#8217;t wait to train [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/booty"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9057" title="Flavia and Craig" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Flavia-and-Craig-224x300.jpg" alt="Flavia and Craig 224x300 Truth About Fasted Cardio" width="180" height="242" /></a>The Truth About Fasted Cardio will be told this week, thanks to some new cardio research from Italy (of all places).</p>
<p>But first, I&#8217;m back from Tampa… There for Joel’s b-day, but tough to leave&#8230;hanging out with Joel Marion, Vince &amp; <a  title="Flavia Del Monte" href="http://www.ttfatloss.com/flavia-delmonte-vs-craig-ballantyne/">Flavia Del Monte</a>, and Roman Fitness Systems was fun and inspiring&#8230;can&#8217;t wait to train harder, serve you better with greater  workouts, and drive towards the TT Mission of helping 1 Million men and women transform their bodies and lives. All because of the energy and motivation from my friends.</p>
<p>Good times, good people.</p>
<p>Inspired by Vince and Flavia…here&#8217;s a photo of me and Flavia…taken by Vince…Vince and Flavia Del Monte are two of the most dedicated and inspirational people in the fitness industry today&#8230;now to be frank. I don&#8217;t agree with all of their training philosophies, but I&#8217;m getting a mental butt kicking by their perseverance.</p>
<p><a  href="http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=18926994"><strong>Click here to listen to the call…</strong></a></p>
<p>Let’s get started with…</p>
<p><strong>Monday – April 11th</strong></p>
<p>Transformation Tip of the Week &#8211; If you want something in life that you aren&#8217;t getting now, you have two choices: 1) Change your ways to behaviors that will move you to that goal. 2) Accept that nothing is going to change because you refuse to change&#8230;..It&#8217;s that simple. Stop dreaming and start doing.</p>
<p><strong>Training Tips</strong></p>
<p>I have a friend using Jim Wendler&#8217;s 5-3-1 program, and it&#8217;s working perfectly for him. If you want to get stronger, you need Jim&#8217;s book &#8211; and I know a lot of TT readers already have it, but keep spreading the word. Example from my client&#8217;s program that is using 5-3-1.</p>
<p><strong>Week 1 &#8211; 3 sets of 5</strong><br />
- 5&#215;75    5&#215;80    5&#215;85<br />
- 185    200    215&#215;5</p>
<p><strong>Week 2 &#8211; 3 sets of 3</strong><br />
- 80&#215;3    85&#215;3    90&#215;3<br />
- 200&#215;3    215&#215;3    225&#215;3</p>
<p><strong>Week 3 &#8211; 1 set of 5, 1 set of 3, 1 set of 1</strong><br />
- 75&#215;5    85&#215;3    95&#215;1<br />
- 185&#215;5    215&#215;3    240</p>
<p><strong>Deload</strong><br />
- 60&#215;5    65&#215;5    70&#215;5</p>
<p>Also, you do a rep max in the final set&#8230;so in week 1, in set 3, if you can do more than 5 reps, go for it.</p>
<p>Great program, and I&#8217;ll interview Jim Wendler soon.</p>
<p><strong>Tuesday</strong> &#8211;   Get 30 minutes of fun activity – now grab a Green Tea and do this week’s research review.</p>
<p>Reference:  Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab. 2011 Feb;21(1):48-54. Exercising fasting or fed to enhance fat loss? Influence of food intake on respiratory ratio and excess post-exercise oxygen consumption after a bout of endurance training.</p>
<p>Researchers from Italy investigated the contrasting reports on whether training in a fasting condition can enhance weight loss by stimulating lipolytic activity.</p>
<p><strong>Subjects were 8 healthy young men who performed early morning slow cardio (36 min of cardiovascular training on treadmill at 65% maximum heart rate) under 2 conditions:</strong></p>
<p>1) Empty stomach<br />
2) After eating</p>
<p>Eating increased both VO2 and RER significantly and 12 hours after the cardio, VO2 was still higher in the eating condition, although RER was significantly lower in the FED test, indicating greater lipid utilization.</p>
<p>The difference was still significant 24 hr after exercise.</p>
<p>The authors conclude that when moderate endurance exercise is done to lose body fat, fasting before exercise does not enhance lipid utilization; rather, physical activity after a light meal is advisable.</p>
<p><strong>BOTTOM LINE: </strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>The truth about fasted cardio is that you do NOT need it.</p>
<p>Use interval training/Turbulence Training instead.</p>
<p><strong>Wednesday Workout Tip &#8211; </strong>Some tips on pull-ups and chinups from the April 2011 issue of Men’s Health magazine.</p>
<p><strong>Pullup facts</strong><br />
•    Hits the hard to work infraspinitus<br />
•    Squeeze shoulder blades down and back to work lower traps<br />
•    Pull elbows to ribs to hit lats hard<br />
<strong>Chins</strong><br />
•    Chest muscles help<br />
•    96% biceps activation<br />
•    Hold top for 2 seconds for biceps</p>
<p><strong>Trainer Thursday</strong> &#8211; Do 30 minutes of fun activity…</p>
<p>Ran the Gauntlet today at the Powerhouse Gym in Tampa. This gym is addictive. It&#8217;s the workout version of all-you-can-eat-buffet. It&#8217;s massive, has platforms for heavy lifting, turf for speed drills, KB&#8217;s, TRX&#8217;s, and an outdoor Gauntlet area&#8230;which is where I did Sled drags + Sledgehammer tire smashes, tire flips + MMA dummy carries, and finished with prowler pushes. Great times. Now back to Toronto.</p>
<p>However…there was some bad training in this gym by others…including jumps on a bosu ball, but researchers in Spain discovered that performing total-body movements on an unstable surface doesn’t work your abs harder. In fact, when men did deadlifts on a bosu ball, their core muscles were LESS activated than when they stood on the floor. The reason? When you are unstable, you use less weight and your muscles don’t work as much. How does everyone not know this?</p>
<p><strong>Facebook Friday &#8211; </strong>I’m doing a lot of QnA sessions over on Facebook at<a  href="http://www.facebook.com/TurbulenceTrainingFanpage"> www.TurbulenceTrainingFanpage.com</a></p>
<p><strong>Question: Craig I&#8217;d like to gain muscle but minimize the belly fat for the summer. I&#8217;m lean and thin? Any advice?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> Ferruggia&#8217;s Muscle Gaining Secrets. You&#8217;re not going to get fat overnight, but you&#8217;ll stay skinny unless you suck it up and train and eat.</p>
<p><strong>Question from Me: What’s the safe level of Ipod volume for your hearing?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Answer:</strong> At the gym this week, a woman&#8217;s Ipod was louder than the music from the gym&#8217;s stereo, so I looked up safe Ipod volume levels&#8230;here&#8217;s a study =&gt; <a  href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2006/10/19/music-earphones.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2006/10/19/music-earphones.html</a> &#8230;.. and here&#8217;s a tip from Apple on setting a MAX volume for your ipod =&gt;<a  href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TA38403?viewlocale=en_US"> http://support.apple.com/kb/TA38403?viewlocale=en_US</a></p>
<p>Great question…please ask yours at: <a  href="http://www.facebook.com/TurbulenceTrainingFanpage">www.TurbulenceTrainingFanpage.com</a></p>
<p><strong>Social Support Saturday &#8211;   30 minutes of fun activity…</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Let me tell you something about YOU. YOU can do anything you want. YOU are in control. YOU can achieve as much success as you want to. YOU can and will pick yourself up when life knocks you down. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Look &#8230;if you&#8217;re struggling, I&#8217;ve been there&#8230;and I can tell you first hand that it&#8217;ll get better if you keep on trying. I believe in you. Go for it.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Frank Kern</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sunday – Plan, Shop &amp; Prepare</strong> &#8211; 30 minutes activity and plan, shop, &amp; prepare</p>
<p>Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab. 2011 Feb;21(1):27-32. Effect of caffeine intake on pain perception during high-intensity exercise. Astorino TA, Terzi MN, Roberson DW, Burnett TR. Dept. of Kinesiology, California State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, CA, USA.</p>
<p><strong>Researchers from California wanted to see what would happen when consumed caffeine and then did a hard workout.</strong></p>
<p>15 active men did workouts of hard leg extensions and leg curls under these conditions:</p>
<p>A)    placebo<br />
B)    2mg/kg (about 150mg = 2 red bull or 1 tall starbucks coffee)<br />
C)    5mg/kg (350mg = 4 red bull or 1 vente starbucks)</p>
<p>no effect (p &gt; .05) of caffeine on pain perception or RPE.</p>
<p>Various measures of muscle function were improved (p &lt; .05) with a 5-mg/kg caffeine dose vs. the other treatments.</p>
<p>In the 5-mg/kg trial, it is plausible that subjects were able to perform better with similar levels of pain perception and exertion.</p>
<p><strong>PERSONALLY</strong>…I can train harder with caffeine, and as a result sometimes have extreme muscle soreness…as I did this week after that strongman-style workout at Powerhouse. My forearms were sore for almost 5 days.</p>
<p><strong>Next week!</strong><br />
•    Training Tips – How to avoid injury<br />
•    Research Review – Supplement Research Study Rundown<br />
•    Nutrition – A simple SWITCH to get people to eat better</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from an amazing weekend in Niagara Falls where I celebrated Vince Del Monte&#8217;s wedding. It was quite a party, and fitness experts John Romaniello and Joel Marion tried their best to prove that the best cardio for fat loss is dancing. But I&#8217;m not convinced. More about cardio in a second&#8230; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/intervalreport"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-5937" title="free" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/free-300x235.jpg" alt="free 300x235 Best Cardio for Fat Loss" width="196" height="153" /></a>I just got back from an amazing weekend in Niagara Falls  where I celebrated Vince Del Monte&#8217;s wedding. It was quite a party, and  fitness experts <em>John Romaniello and Joel Marion tried their best to  prove that the best cardio for fat loss is dancing</em>.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m not  convinced. More about cardio in a second&#8230;</p>
<p>First, I just want to  mention in this Friday&#8217;s email, I&#8217;m going to give you the complete rundown  on the wedding, including two HUGE life lessons I learned from the Del Monte  family, but today I want to talk to you about the best cardio for fat loss.</p>
<p><strong>Why? </strong></p>
<p>Because last Friday night, before heading off to the  wedding in<br />
Niagara Falls, I spent 3 hours reviewing your answers to the  latest<br />
TT client survey, and boy did I learn a lot about what you need to<br />
help you lose fat.</p>
<p>Surprisingly, <em><strong>MOTIVATION was the #1 request for  help</strong></em>, and I&#8217;ve got some great articles and audio programs in the works that  will help.</p>
<p>The second biggest request was for more nutrition, and I&#8217;m  working on some free reports and articles that will help you eat right for  fat loss.</p>
<p>Finally, the 3rd biggest request was for the best  interval/cardio program for fat burning.</p>
<p>Fortunately, I can cover a  LOT about this topic in just one article, plus I also have a <strong><a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/intervalreport">free interval training report</a></strong> already done for you, so I&#8217;ve chosen to start by helping you solve the &#8220;best  cardio&#8221; problem.</p>
<p>Now a lot of people make a big mistake with cardio, and  funny enough, this conversation came up over and over again at the wedding  on Saturday night.</p>
<p>And this &#8220;theme&#8221; really makes me roll my eyes and  shake my head.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t remember how many times I heard someone say, &#8220;Oh,  I&#8217;m going to have to hit the gym extra hard on Monday to burn this off.&#8221;</p>
<p>I find it ridiculous&#8230;because first, it&#8217;s not healthy thinking, and  second, it is not accurate thinking.</p>
<p><em><strong>Seriously, let&#8217;s look at this for a  second. </strong></em></p>
<p>The wedding meal, beginning with the post-ceremony celebratory  drink,<br />
right through to the anti-pasta buffet, followed by the main dinner  (I had eggplant parmigiana), and then dessert, PLUS the late night  sweets spread (the Del Montes know how to host a party!) would EASILY  result in over 2400 calories.</p>
<p>And how long would it take you to burn  that many calories doing your<br />
average cardio workout?</p>
<p>You&#8217;d need to  do cardio for just a little less time than it would take you to run a  marathon.</p>
<p>So 3 hours for the fittest TT readers, 4-5 hours for the  average TT reader, and more than 6-8 hours for beginner TT readers.</p>
<p>Does that sound like a &#8220;regular cardio session&#8221; to you?</p>
<p>Heck no!</p>
<p><em><strong>So FORGET the &#8220;I&#8217;m going to burn off this big meal with cardio&#8221;  mentality. </strong></em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s WRONG thinking.</p>
<p>Plus, as I&#8217;ve mentioned time  and time again, research shows that regular cardio doesn&#8217;t really help with  fat loss.</p>
<p>1) One study showed interval training was better than cardio  at burning belly fat (and cut the workout time in half) &#8211; more about  interval training research here:</p>
<p><strong>=&gt; <a  href="http://www.turbuencetraining.com/intervalreport" target="_blank">http://www.TurbuenceTraining.com/intervalreport</a></strong></p>
<p>2) A  second study found that 300 hours of cardio per year helped men lose only 6  pounds (and women lost only 4 pounds). So that&#8217;s about 50 hours of cardio  per pound of weight lost &#8211; at BEST!</p>
<p>(<strong>Obesity 15:1496-1512 (2007)</strong>.  Exercise Effect on Weight and Body Fat<br />
in Men and Women. Anne McTiernan*, et  al.)</p>
<p>3) A third study found SOME folks start eating MORE when they start  a cardio program. These folks end up gaining weight on aerobics.</p>
<p>(<strong>Reference</strong>: International Journal of Obesity 32: 177-184, 2008).</p>
<p>So if long, slow, boring cardio doesn&#8217;t work, what&#8217;s left for to  burn fat?</p>
<p>Well first, I will acknowledge that high-intensity cardio  seems to work better. In one study, subjects who burned 400 calories doing  high-intensity cardio ended up losing fat while subjects who did only  low-intensity cardio did not lose ANY fat at all!</p>
<p>(Med Sci Sports Exerc.  2008 Oct 8. Effect of Exercise Training<br />
Intensity on Abdominal Visceral Fat  and Body Composition.)</p>
<p>But the best way, the fastest way, and the most  enjoyable way to burn fat is with interval training.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t  read my interval training report on how to lose fat with this scientifically  proven exercise secret, please go to this website and get your free report:</p>
<p>=&gt; <strong><a  href="http://www.turbuencetraining.com/intervalreport" target="_blank">http://www.TurbuenceTraining.com/intervalreport</a></strong></p>
<p>And  soon I&#8217;ll be revealing over 31 different interval training methods for fat  loss. And it won&#8217;t just be sprinting on a treadmill for 1 minute straight.  Trust me, there are a lot of unique ways to burn fat with interval training.</p>
<p>In the meantime, FORGET about slow, boring cardio. It is a generally  a big waste of time for fat loss. Sure, it&#8217;s good for running marathons,  but not for busy people who only have 2-3 hours per week to burn fat.</p>
<p>More interval training secrets coming soon!</p>
<p>Stay strong,</p>
<p>Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS<br />
Author, Turbulence Training</p>
<p><strong>PS &#8211;  If you don&#8217;t have access to any equipment for intervals&#8230; </strong><a href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/workouts/2010/june2010_bwcardio.shtml  "><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5938" title="june2010_bwcardio" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/june2010_bwcardio.jpg" alt="june2010 bwcardio Best Cardio for Fat Loss" width="107" height="155" /></a></p>
<p>&#8230;you can  get started burning fat faster than with traditional slow cardio by using my  &#8220;Bodyweight Cardio 3&#8243; circuits. You&#8217;ll discover muscles you didn&#8217;t even know  you had with this program!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/workouts/2010/june2010_bwcardio.shtml  "><strong>Click here to try Bodyweight Cardio 3 </strong></a></p>
<p>I challenge you to try the 5-round fat loss program in Workout B and  tell me that isn&#8217;t 10x&#8217;s better than slow cardio.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey y&#8217;all&#8230;.if you&#8217;re just checking in after a brief break, then you&#8217;ve picked the perfect time to catch up! Over the past week I&#8217;ve been sharing with you an interview I did with underground strength and fitness expert, Jason Ferruggia.  If you&#8217;ve never heard of Ferruggia, then I highly recommend getting to know him because [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4034" title="How Much Cardio Should You Do?" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/CARDIO1.jpg" alt="CARDIO1 How Much Cardio Should You Do?" width="300" height="300" />Hey y&#8217;all&#8230;.if you&#8217;re just checking in after a brief break, then you&#8217;ve picked the perfect time to catch up!</p>
<p>Over the past week I&#8217;ve been sharing with you an interview I did with underground strength and fitness expert, <a  href="http://jasonferruggia.com/">Jason Ferruggia</a>.  If you&#8217;ve never heard of Ferruggia, then I highly recommend getting to know him because the training he does with his clients is producing some incredible results &#8211; This guy knows his stuff.</p>
<p>And last day was no exception&#8230;</p>
<p>Training younger athletes is a very delicate process. You don&#8217;t want to push them too hard and risk injury, but you also want to get the most out of them.  So, how can you achieve maximum results with younger athletes?  Check out <a  href="http://www.ttfatloss.com/workouts/training-younger-athletes/">part 6</a> and find out.</p>
<p>On tap for today, Ferruggia reveals just how much cardio you should be doing to gain muscle and keep fat at bay.  But that&#8217;s not all, if you&#8217;re going to be doing cardio, then you want to make sure you&#8217;re doing the RIGHT type of cardio.  Get it wrong, and you&#8217;re wasting your time&#8230;.</p>
<p>****************************</p>
<p><strong>Craig Ballantyne: Now, one question that I wanted to ask that you were talking about a bit before is you make the skinny guys sit out of the conditioning stuff. Guys are always asking how much <a  href="http://www.ttfatloss.com/cardio/cardio-is-lame/">cardio</a>, how much conditioning should I do if I’m trying to gain muscle? </strong></p>
<p><strong>So, what are your general rules and how does that differ from young guys to older guys, to guys who want to get really jacked and guys who just want to gain a little bit of muscle? </strong></p>
<p><strong>Jason Ferruggia:</strong> It’s funny, because now in the internet, YouTube, train like an athlete kind of phase everybody asks m<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4042" title="skinny kid" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/skinny-kid.jpg" alt="skinny kid How Much Cardio Should You Do?" width="225" height="176" />e all the time about what kind of conditioning they should do. We never heard of the word conditioning when I was coming up. Looking at bodybuilders in the 80’s there was lifting and there was cardio and no one did conditioning and maybe we’d do cardio.</p>
<p>To gain size and strength you really shouldn’t do any at the beginning <strong>if you’re SKINNY</strong>, it doesn’t matter what age you are. If you have a fast metabolism, the genetics to keep you lean, and your goal is to gain 30 pounds, you probably <strong>shouldn’t do any for at least 12 weeks</strong> if that’s your main goal.</p>
<p>If you want to do some, do what [Inaudible] Yates did and get up in the morning and go for a walk. I like to the two opposite ends of the spectrum, the two extremes, either HIGH intensity or really LOW intensity. I think the middle ground stuff is what causes cortisol release, which eats up muscle.</p>
<p>Basically, like I said, <strong>I would either have guys just follow Yates’ guidelines and walk OR I would do sprints OR some kind of high intensity method like that. </strong></p>
<p><strong>The in between stuff is NO GOOD.</strong></p>
<p>Someone like me, 25 years old, I do not stay ripped by any means, <strong>I do NEED conditioning or I will get fat. So, I would train three days a week and then I would recommend two high intensity sessions</strong>. Personally, I prefer sprints above all else, so hill sprints.</p>
<p><a  href="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/hill-sprints.jpg" class="thickbox no_icon" rel="gallery-4029" title="hill sprints"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4043" title="hill sprints" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/hill-sprints-300x224.jpg" alt="hill sprints 300x224 How Much Cardio Should You Do?" width="191" height="142" /></a>The flat ground sprints are the riskiest, because you’re at risk of a hamstring pull, sometimes you’ll even pull a quad if your running form is horrible. Hill sprints really minimize the RISK, because of the angle of your body, so I recommend hill sprints twice a week. If you don’t have a hill near you sprint with a sled or sprint with a prowler.</p>
<p>The jump rope is great, it worked for every boxer in history, it will work for you.</p>
<p>Those are really the two basics.</p>
<p>Then I know people like to get into more of the fun stuff, which we do at the gym too, so if you have access to strong man kind of stuff, medleys like that are great where you take kettlebells and go into the battling ropes from a kettle ball swing, to a battling rope, to a body weight drill, to a sledge hammer swing.</p>
<p>That kind of stuff is great. If you’re going to do that you’ve got to be careful that it doesn’t interfere with your strength training, so that kind of workout might have to replace one of your strength training days. You can do two strength training days, one kind of crazy conditioning, kind of a strength based conditioning day.</p>
<p>For everyone else, like I said, it’s either LOW intensity or HIGH intensity. That middle ground stuff where you just get on the bike and ride pretty hard for 30 or 40 minutes, that kind of stuff I hate. That definitely causes <strong>MUSCLE LOSS</strong> and cortisol increase.</p>
<p><strong>It’s either interval training or some kind of high intensity stuff or the real low intensity.</strong></p>
<p>If you do the real LOW intensity you’ve got to do it obviously for a LONG TIME, six days a week for 30 to 45 minutes. But, those two won’t cause muscle loss where the other middle range stuff will.</p>
<p><strong>Craig Ballantyne: Very interesting. Excellent stuff.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Now that you have the cardio element figured out, let&#8217;s talk exercises, specifically, which are the best for each  body part.  Let&#8217;s head to <a  href="http://www.ttfatloss.com/workouts/best-body-part-exercises/">part 8</a> of the interview and find out.<br />
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday morning I was walking home from the gym when I passed by a young women &#8211; about 28 years old &#8211; who was talking on her Iphone. And I heard her say, &#8220;I&#8217;m going for a walk now to get some exercise because I&#8217;m going out for a bad dinner tonight.&#8221; And I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3239" title="iphone" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/iphone.gif" alt="iphone 1 Mistake All Women Make" width="161" height="174" />On Saturday morning I was walking home from the gym when I passed by a young women &#8211; about 28 years old &#8211; who was talking on her Iphone.</p>
<p>And I heard her say, &#8220;I&#8217;m going for a walk now to get some exercise because I&#8217;m going out for a bad dinner tonight.&#8221;</p>
<p>And I just wanted to yell, &#8220;No &#8211; no &#8211; no &#8211; no &#8211; no! That doesn&#8217;t work. It never has, it never will.&#8221;</p>
<p><em><strong>You can&#8217;t out-cardio a bad diet.</strong></em></p>
<p>Every woman I&#8217;ve ever met has made this mistake and had that &#8220;cardio confessional mindset&#8221; at one time or another &#8211; and it goes for most of the guys I know, too.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3240" title="appetizers" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/appetizers.jpg" alt="appetizers 1 Mistake All Women Make" width="244" height="200" /></p>
<p>Unfortunately, at best, this poor girl will probably burn an extra 300-500 calories during her walk &#8211; if it&#8217;s a really, really long walk. But at dinner, she&#8217;s likely to eat 400-700 calories during the appetizer or consume that in liquid calories alone!</p>
<p>(<strong>NOTE: </strong>By &#8220;bad dinner&#8221;, I&#8217;m guessing she meant a high-calorie meal, and not a pity date with a deadbeat ex-boyfriend.)</p>
<p>The bottom line is that a single cardio session will not beat a bad diet.</p>
<p>Now you might be thinking, &#8220;At least it&#8217;s better than nothing.&#8221;</p>
<p><em><strong>But is it?</strong></em></p>
<p>Remember, as I&#8217;ve mentioned in the past, one British study found that some people OVEREAT in response to cardio exercise.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3241" title="images8" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/images8.jpg" alt="images8 1 Mistake All Women Make"  /></p>
<p>So when dinner comes around, this poor girl might think, &#8220;Oh, I did that long walk today, so I can treat myself to a bigger dinner or dessert.&#8221;</p>
<p>The only thing that comes close to beating a bad diet is interval training and resistance training.</p>
<p>Back in 2007, an Australian research study on interval training was getting a LOT of press for the surprising results. In the study, women who did interval training were able to lose belly fat without changing their diet.</p>
<p>In fact, one subject, named Louise, said this:</p>
<p>&#8220;My diet was pretty bad back then, with lots of sweets, lots of junk food&#8230;doughnuts and sugar &#8212; it was awful.&#8221;<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3242" title="images9" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/images9.jpg" alt="images9 1 Mistake All Women Make"  /></p>
<p>And yet by the end of this study, <a  href="http://www.ttfatloss.com/category/interval-training">interval training</a> helped Louise burn 8kg of fat in just 15 weeks &#8211; WITHOUT changing her diet.</p>
<p>Perhaps it IS POSSIBLE for you to out-train a bad diet &#8211; <strong><em>but only if you use interval training</em></strong>.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s just another reason Turbulence Training is based on this specific type of fat burning exercise.</p>
<p><strong>So here&#8217;s what you need to do:</strong></p>
<p>1) Give up the &#8220;Cardio Confessional Mentality&#8221; and understand that you can&#8217;t &#8220;out-cardio a bad diet&#8221;.<a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/workouts/2010/Feb2010_Adrenaline.shtml"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3243" title="cb-ttaw-ebook-4" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cb-ttaw-ebook-4.jpg" alt="interval training workout" /></a></p>
<p>2) Stick to your simple Turbulence Training lifestyle nutrition plan 90% of the time and then enjoy your 10% reward meals GUILT-FREE.</p>
<p>3) Use interval training to burn the fat and resistance training to sculpt your body.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s that simple &#8211; a <strong>3-step system for fat loss success</strong> that is guaranteed to work every time.</p>
<p>Enjoy guilt-free eating and fat loss with this mindset.</p>
<p>Your friend,</p>
<p>Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS<br />
Author, <a  href="http://www.turbulencetraining.com/trial-offer.shtml">Turbulence Training</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[T&#8217;is the season for folks to be hitting the cardio confessionals with the mistaken belief that 30 minutes on the elliptical machine will somehow magically erase 40 days of being on the See-Food diet&#8230; Today while I did my Turbulence Training style workout, I watched all those poor folks on the cardio machines (you know, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2011" title="cardioconfessional" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cardioconfessional.jpg" alt="cardio workout" width="141" height="202" />T&#8217;is the season for folks to be hitting the cardio confessionals with the mistaken belief that 30 minutes on the elliptical machine will somehow<br />
magically erase 40 days of being on the See-Food diet&#8230;</p>
<p>Today while  I did my Turbulence Training style workout, I watched all those poor folks on the  cardio machines (you know, the ones with the long, sad faces<br />
hating what  they are doing) and felt kinda sorry for them.</p>
<p>Not many &#8211; if any &#8211; of them looked like  they wanted to be doing cardio.</p>
<p><strong>I also thought about how disgusting  cardio machines are&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Back in University, I once helped the maintenance guy  clean the cardio equipment. And I&#8217;d compare that experience to walking through a slaughterhouse &#8211; pretty darn gross.</p>
<p>The stuff I saw on those  machines&#8230;from thousands of gym members doing<br />
thousands of hours of  cardio&#8230;sweating out their DNA into every crack and<br />
crevice of that  equipment&#8230;the sweat mixed with hair mixed with all other<br />
sorts of stuff  led to the grossest &#8220;gunk&#8221; I&#8217;d ever seen compiled anywhere<br />
outside of a  sewer.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2013" title="images17" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/images17.jpg" alt="images17 7 Reasons Cardio is Lame"  /></p>
<p>I pretty much swore off of ever touching a cardio machine that  day.</p>
<p><strong>But it always makes me laugh when I see someone give a ceremonial  squirt and wipedown of a cardio machine, as if that&#8217;s going to do  anything&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>I also watched all those folks on the cardio machines and I  noticed they go through some interesting rituals during their workouts.</p>
<p><strong>This got me thinking, and I came up with &#8220;The 7 Signs You Are Doing Too  Much Cardio&#8221;.</strong></p>
<p>So you are doing too much cardio if&#8230;</p>
<p>#1 &#8211; You have to spend 5 minutes before your workout flipping through  all<br />
the magazines in the gym to find one you haven&#8217;t read before.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2014" title="images18" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/images18.jpg" alt="images18 7 Reasons Cardio is Lame" width="162" height="122" /></p>
<p>#2  &#8211; You know the other cardio addicts on the machines beside you (that you talk to everyday) better than you know your own friends.</p>
<p>#3 &#8211; You  know exactly how many calories you burn per minute on every machine in the  gym (and you use that information to justify every calorie you eat.)</p>
<p>#4  &#8211; You hate doing it and dread your workouts more than a trip to the  dentist.</p>
<p>#5 &#8211; The only thing you are losing is precious time &#8211; and not  belly fat.</p>
<p>#6 &#8211; You go to the gym to watch your favorite television  shows while doing<br />
cardio.</p>
<p>#7 &#8211; You&#8217;re getting overuse injuries from  repetitive motion because you keep doing the same activity over and over  again everyday.</p>
<p><strong>Seven darn good reasons why cardio is lame.</strong></p>
<p>Listen, cardio is not the be all and end all of exercise  for fat loss. In fact, as I&#8217;ve written in previous <a  href="http://www.ttfatloss.com/category/cardio/">fat burning cardio articles</a>, slow cardio is  highly over-rated for fat loss.<a  href="http://www.turbulencetrainingforabs.com"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2015" title="cb_taang_ebook_4" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cb_taang_ebook_4.jpg" alt="cb taang ebook 4 7 Reasons Cardio is Lame"  /></a></p>
<p>Most of your results are going to  come from your nutrition. So focus on whole, natural foods, and avoid foods  that come from a bag or a box. If it&#8217;s been modified in any way, you don&#8217;t  need it.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve taken care of your nutrition, look for workouts  that you enjoy that allow you to build strength, mobility, and fitness.</p>
<p>And no matter what you choose to do, don&#8217;t just do the same thing over and over again everyday.</p>
<p>Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS<br />
Author, <a  href="http://www.JustSayNotoCardio.com">Just Say NO to Cardio</a></p>
<p>**********************<br />
By the way, here are some bonus reasons from my readers about why they think cardio is lame.</p>
<p><strong>If you have other thoughts, please post them in the comments below. Thanks!</strong></p>
<p>#8 &#8211; If you are using cardio as a form of self-punishment (like after a night of<br />
eating at a friends wedding)&#8230;you do too much cardio.</p>
<p>#9 &#8211; If you go to  the gym to do cardio even though you have more important and time sensitive  things to get done..you are a cardio junkie.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was interviewed by Men&#8217;s Health magazine, and they were looking for workouts that could replace cardio. In my opinion, doing bodyweight or kettlebell circuits is a much better replacement for cardio. I think bodyweight circuits or kettlebell-bodyweight circuits are the best replacement for cardio. Now of course you&#8217;re not going to run a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I was interviewed by Men&#8217;s Health magazine, and they were looking  for workouts that could replace cardio. In my opinion, doing bodyweight or  <a  title="kettlebell circuits" href="http://www.ttfatloss.com/kettlebell-bodyweight-circuit-workout/">kettlebell circuits</a> is a much better replacement for cardio.</p>
<p><strong>I think bodyweight circuits or kettlebell-bodyweight circuits are the  best replacement for cardio. </strong></p>
<p>Now of course you&#8217;re not going to run a sub 3-hour marathon just by doing these circuits, but I guarantee you&#8217;ll sculpt a better body and <a  href="http://www.ttfatloss.com/category/burn-fat/">burn fat</a> with circuit training than you ever will by just doing cardio. Plus, these circuits, even if done up to 5 times, will still be a shorter workout than doing an hour of cardio.</p>
<p>Take it easy the first time through each circuit and use that as a warmup, and then go through another 2-4 times for your workout.</p>
<p><strong>Here are some sample circuit training workouts: </strong></p>
<p><strong>Crazy-8  Bodyweight Circuit </strong><br />
1) 60 Jumping Jacks: Done as fast as possible, but make  sure you do full jumping jacks.<br />
2) 20 Spiderman Pushups or regular  pushups:<br />
3) Walking Lunges: 30 steps total<br />
4) Spiderman Climb: 10 per  side<br />
5) Bodyweight Squat &#8211; 20 reps <a  href="http://turbulencetraining.com/workouts/2008/Oct2008BWCardio.shtml"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1313" title="oct2008bwcardio" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/oct2008bwcardio.jpg" alt="cardio workout" /></a><br />
6) Mountain Climbers &#8211; 20 reps<br />
7)  Burpees &#8211; 5 reps<br />
8]  High Knees: Done as fast as possible. Do 50 total.</p>
<p>With that program,  you can literally do that circuit anytime, anywhere, without having to rely on a single piece of equipment. After all, that&#8217;s the biggest concern of most people these days&#8230;they need to workout in a hotel room, or at home, or in a park where they don&#8217;t have kettlebells, or dumbbells, etc. So that&#8217;s the workout you can use.</p>
<p>Next up is a circuit that you can do in a tiny amount of space in your home. And frankly, you can do it anywhere that you have access to a kettlebell and stability ball, so YES, you can do this one in a park, too.</p>
<p><strong>Kettlebell and Bodyweight Exercise Circuit</strong><br />
1) KB Swing – 20 reps (1-0-1)<br />
2) Pushup – 20 reps (2-0-1)<br />
3) Stability Ball Back Extension – 10 reps (2-0-1)<br />
4) Stability Ball  Pike – 8 reps (2-0-1)<br />
5) KB 1-Arm Swing – 10 reps per side (1-0-1) <a  href="http://kettlebellworkouts.com/fatloss/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1314" title="cb-10mkw-ebook2-4" src="http://www.ttfatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cb-10mkw-ebook2-4.jpg" alt="cb 10mkw ebook2 4 Circuits vs Cardio"  /></a><br />
6)  Pushup – 20 reps (2-0-1)<br />
7) Stability Ball Leg Curl – 20 reps (1-0-1)<br />
8] Ab Wheel or Stability Ball Rollout – 8 reps (2-0-1)<br />
9) Sprint or Burpee – 20  seconds or 8 reps</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s not hard enough for you, you can add more kettlebell swings or snatches. And if its too hard for you, then you can do this circuit instead (make sure to move through it as fast as possible)&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Beginner Bodyweight Exercise and Kettlebell Circuit Workout</strong><br />
1) KB Squats or 2-Arm Swings &#8211; 10 reps<br />
2) Beginner Pushups &#8211; 10 reps<br />
3) Stability Ball Leg Curls &#8211; 10 reps<br />
4) KB Squats or 2-Arm Swing &#8211; 10 reps<br />
5) KB Rows &#8211; 10 reps per side<br />
6) Bodyweight Split Squats &#8211; 10 reps per side<br />
7) Beginner Close-Grip Pushups &#8211; 10 reps<br />
8] 20-second run</p>
<p>Those are bodyweight exercise and <a  href="http://www.kettlebellworkouts.com">kettlebell circuit workouts</a> that you can do with little equipment, and you should be able to do them at home. The equipment might cost you 50 bucks (or more if you need a heavy kettlebell).</p>
<p>Helping you burn fat without cardio,</p>
<p>Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS<br />
Author, Turbulence Training</p>
<p><a  href="http://turbulencetraining.com/workouts/fat-loss-workouts.shtml"><strong>PS &#8211; Check out all of the Turbulence Training Circuit Programs here.</strong></a></p>
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