How to BURN FAT OFF, Literally....

Here is one of the WORST things you can do if you want to ignite your body's own fat-burning furnace and get lean, strong & totally ripped in less time....

Well the worst things are that way because they waste your time and the bottom line, time is money.  To me its about working smarter, not harder, more efficient if you will.   What I am talking about is not maintaining your health, because all exercises have their place.  I’m talking about RESULTS driven movements that can develop a super strong heart and core, which in turn creates a lean, mean body....

Mistake #1: Doing long bouts of cardio
Look, you need to do cardio if you want to lose weight and burn fat...BUT there's a right way and a wrong way to do your cardio workouts. If you've been pounding the pavement or the treadmill with nothing to show for it (except sore joints and a pair of stinky worn out sneakers), you already know it takes a lot of effort to get minimal results. 

Of course cardio-vascular fitness is one of your 5 components of health-related fitness and needs to be maintained for optimal health.  So getting on your fav piece of equipment is fine, but for results driven effect this is how it falls on the worst list for FAT BURNING!

Combined the cardio with strength and endurance movements that utilize as many joints as possible.  A “Burpee and/or Squat Thrust” uses ever joint on the body & requires full body dedication to form & core strength.  The idea is to have super high intensity with functional (real world) movements that combined energy systems like cardio & musculare endurance with strength from body weight too. 

How do you choose to move? Like nothing else on the planet...

A 600 lb bear (who is NOT considered overweight) can climb a tree, an ant can lift over 50X its body weight, and well most animals on planet earth have more maneuverability and endurance than human beings.  Humans are clumsy, move awkwardly, and basically are not very coordinated when compared to the thousands of other species on this planet.  Not to mention over 65% of Americans are overweight, so they move less than the best athletes.

So what are we to do if most if not all other species can move faster, demonstrate more agility, and flow through space in a more precise way?  Well I suggest this....

I focus clients movements on specific joints that humans poses and their are 13 major joints on the human kino-matic chain (starting at bottom up):  ankles, knees, hips, wrists, elbows, shoulders, and neck.  With utilizing the way a joint moves, that can help to isolate-muscle and/or recruit more muscles for a specific task (exercise).

With a focus on functional (real world) training verses traditional.  The difference is functional combines many (3 or more) joints in several phases of a movement. Where as traditional exercise like a bench press will find a person laying on their back with only 2 joints moving.   A functional exercise like a bear crawl (walking on all fours equally) applies all 13 joints to move at once in a diversity of patterns that applies a persons body weight as resistance.  This is an ideal movement for results because it is a whole body work out, which produces faster changes in body fat.

The results are the core of the body is strengthen through regular dynamic movements and that transcends into everything else (arms & legs) being more toned & trained.  Making bear noises is optional, but always adds a fun element when my neighbor looks out the window & I’m moving around my front lawn on all fours!