This Type Of Exercise Is Shockingly Good For You
Most people believe that walking is not an intense enough exercise to improve your health very much and you’d get more benefit from running. In a similar train of thought, many [...]
Intensity or Insanity? How Much Training Effort is Enough?
Intensity is one of the most important training variables, and at times, it’s definitely beneficial to push yourself and train with high intensity (effort level) especially if you’re short on [...]
Are You Making These HIIT Cardio Mistakes Too?
High intensity interval training or HIIT cardio has been around for years, and almost everyone has tried it, or at least heard of it. Many people swear by HIIT, for cardiovascular fitness, fat loss or both. Other [...]
8 Reasons Your Cardio Workouts Aren’t Working
So, you’ve started doing cardio to burn fat and get in shape. Perhaps you’ve started running every morning or taking a walk on your lunch break. Or maybe you began using the elliptical, stairclimber, or [...]
The Doctor Says, Running Will KILL You
Running can kill you! Or so say the latest round of anti cardio articles. It started (again) late last year with the much-publicized mainstream reports of a study which warned [...]
Eat More, Burn More: The Physique Athlete’s Method To Maximum Fat Loss
Physique athletes (bodybuilding, fitness, fitness model, figure and bikini competitors) eat and train differently. In fact, a lot of what they do to develop the leanest, most muscular, most aesthetically pleasing bodies in the world [...]
Aerobic vs Weight Training: Which is Better For Fat Loss (The Duke Study – Was it Wrong?)
A recent study from Duke University comparing aerobic versus weight training to see which is better for fat loss was one of the most publicized studies of the year. My in-box was bursting with emails [...]
Move a Little, Lose a Lot (My NEAT Step Experiment, Part 3)
Is burning fat and keeping it off as simple as moving more? Is the solution to the entire obesity crisis getting off our butts? Well, yes and no. Yes, moving [...]
ME? A Couch Potato? (My N.E.A.T. Step Experiment Part 1)
Finally, I bought a Fitbit. I say finally because I’d been hearing about the Fitbit (and similar activitiy tracking devices like the BodyBugg) from my friends, readers and Inner Circle [...]
Why Cardio Doesn't Work For Some People: A NEAT Explanation
At the Burn the Fat Inner Circle member forums earlier this week, I got a question which comes up with alarming frequency: “Why isn’t my cardio working?” Despite not only doing regular cardio for weeks, [...]