0 How to Lose Up to 20 Pounds in 6 Weeks

By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
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It is truly AMAZING how you can change your body in less than 6 weeks.

It truly is.

In fact, in the recent Turbulence Training Transformation Contest, the male winner lost 20 pounds of fat and our female winner lost 19 pounds in just six short weeks.

But of course, you won't change your body with a bad diet while relying on the "cardio confessional" to burn it off.

After all, each one of those lil' mini chocolate bars that you gave out for Halloween probably contains about 50 calories.

You'd have to jog for about 5 minutes at a slow cardio pace to burn that off.

And who are we kidding, NO ONE - not even me - eats just ONE of those little chocolate bar critters.

One of my friends posted on Facebook that he had 18 (!) of them by late Sunday evening.

Uh-oh.

That's 900 calories...or about 90 minutes of slow "yogging", as Will Ferrell called it in the cinematic classic, "Anchorman".

Want more bad news?

According to Men's Health magazine:

- 67 minutes of jump rope burns 920 calories (only Rocky would like this)
- 90 minutes of chopping wood burns 1000 calories
- 2 hours of backpacking burns the 1000 calories

And according to a random website, it would take a 200 pound guy over 70 minutes on the elliptical machine or 2 hours of hard landscaping to burn 1000 calories.

Then again, does all that cardio "really" help fat loss?

If you climb on the "cardio confessional" on a Monday morning after Halloween, or Thanksgiving, or Christmas, or any weekend of excess, can you really beat the fat with cardio?

The answer, sadly, is no.

Actually, that's not sad. That's GREAT news.

You are FREE of the cardio confessional forever!

After all, our Transformation Contest winners don't do endless cardio.

Plus, as I've mentioned before, research shows that regular cardio doesn't really help with fat loss.

1) One study found that 300 hours of cardio per year helped men lose only 6 pounds (and women lost only 4 pounds). So that's about 50 hours of cardio per pound of weight lost - at BEST!
(Reference: Obesity 15:1496-1512 (2007). Exercise Effect on Weight and Body Fat in Men and Women. Anne McTiernan*, et al.)

2) Another study found SOME folks start eating MORE when they start a cardio program. These folks end up gaining weight on aerobics.
(Reference: International Journal of Obesity 32: 177-184, 2008).

So if long, slow, boring cardio doesn't work, what's left for to burn fat?

The good news is that we have an answer:

Total body workouts and interval training.

One study showed interval training was better than cardio at burning belly fat (and cut the workout time in half).

Plus, yesterday I discovered another research study from the British Journal of Sports Medicine (2010: 44) that found interval training increases fat burning.

In the study, British scientists from the University of Birmingham had subjects do 6-weeks of interval training three times per week.

The subjects decreased their body fat with interval training and were able to burn more fat during exercise - plus they improved their "insulin sensitivity" - an important health measurement.

The researchers concluded:

"The results obtained for the first time provide evidence to suggest that interval training is also a time-efficient method to improve whole-body fat oxidation, body composition and insulin sensitivity in young, sedentary males."

Exactly.

So if you want the proven diet and exercise program that will help you lose up to 20 pounds in just 6 weeks, get started with the Turbulence Training for Fat Loss program that helped these Transformation Contest winners.

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