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.
It probably works for fewer people than it doesn't work for. In fact, some researchers/trainers believes cardio can make a woman's thighs even fatter.
So if you've found your upper body getting skinnier but
your thighs getting fatter after doing a cardio program, then I
guarantee cardio is not the best fat burning workout for you!
Unfortunately, cardio simply does not work for 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.
Now to be fair, some people in this study lost a lot of weight. But some people in the study also gained weight. Imagine that! Doing exercise and gaining weight. How frustrating!
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.
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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.
It probably works for fewer people than it doesn't work for. In fact, some researchers/trainers believes cardio can make a woman's thighs even fatter.
Unfortunately, cardio simply does not work for 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.
Now to be fair, some people in this study lost a lot of weight. But some people in the study also gained weight. Imagine that! Doing exercise and gaining weight. How frustrating!
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.
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