The truth about cardio for fat loss is that it WILL work for some people.

However, most of those people are generally younger men, you know those guys
who are in university or just out of and, therefore, also have lots of time
to train, so that’s what generally works best for.

Unfortunately, that’s not most of the people reading this article, and in
some of the recent research that I’ve studied, came across, I found one
study from the UK that showed that when some people do cardio, they actually
have an increase in their appetite.

They did this study over about eight weeks and found that some people
actually gained weight over an eight week cardio weight loss study and when
they looked at what these people ate, they found that cardio made these
people hungrier and increased their appetite, so if that’s you then cardio
is not the way to go.

Another study that I came across recently showed that in men and women that
had – these men and women did an hour of cardio six days per week for an
entire year and they only lost six pounds of body weight on average, so
that’s obviously not a very good investment of their time.

Again, the research really isn’t too supportive of long, slow cardio for fat
loss and it’s certainly not as good as interval training.

There’s been two head-to-head studies of cardio and intervals and the one is
almost 15 years old now and it’s from Canada and it showed that the people
on the interval training lost more body fat and then just in late 2006, a
study came out of Australia and it showed that a group of women doing a 15-
week study, those that did 40 minutes of slow cardio three days per week
didn’t lose any weight, but those doing 20 minutes of interval training
three days per week actually lose belly fat.

That is the truth about cardio when it comes to research and fat loss
studies and it just shows you it’s not as good as most people think.

Certainly, in the real world we see that because there’s a lot of people
that don’t change their bodies even though they do six or seven hours of
cardio per week. Interval training does work better for fat loss in a short
amount of workout time.

About the Author

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