Part 7 - An Exclusive Interview With Fat Loss Expert Tom Venuto By Tom Nicoli
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Tom Nicoli: Now, when you mentioned cardio and strength, I had a client recently tell me that he has a friend who’s pretty fit, and he has pretty much tired to dominate his thinking, telling him he absolutely must get 45 minutes of cardio every time they go to the gym. This client of mine tells me that when he was in a program doing 20 minutes of cardio mixed with his strength training, he had better results doing less. Is this another trial and error, like you mentioned previously, with the carb intake and types of food you’ll eat, that you put forth the effort to do “X” amount of time cardio and “X” amount of time strength training. And if you are or are not getting results, you shift and change?
Tom Venuto: Yes, trial and error is a part of it, but you can bypass most of the trial and error by starting with a proven baseline diet and training system as your foundation. You can adjust from there if necessary, based on how your body responds. For example, the baseline for cardio training is my recommendation of three days a week at the appropriate heart rate and intensity. Add more if necessary, but use a proven and logical starting point.
With cardio, there are also ways you can make your workouts a lot more time efficient, which is probably what the person you mentioned did in order to get more results in less time. High-intensity interval training is one example, where you would do a minute or two of moderate intensity exercise followed by a minute of high intensity exercise, where you’re really pushing the heart rate above your normal training zone, and then you drop back down to moderate. You’d repeat these intervals for the duration of your workout.
What research has shown is that, not only does this burn a lot of calories during the workout; it keeps your metabolism elevated afterward for a longer period of time than if you go with low-intensity, long duration cardio such as walking. So there are ways, if you are extremely busy like so many people are these days, that you can make your workouts more time efficient. But I think you also need to have the willingness to do what it takes to reach your goal as well as have a certain amount of flexibility in your program.
Too many weight loss programs are extremely dogmatic and recommend only one type of workout, as if there were only one way to do it. There are some programs out there today that say, “Follow my program or else!” “The workout is 20 minutes three days a week, period,” and there’s no flexibility. It’s really more effective in the long-term if you allow yourself flexibility.
Look at your baseline program as a starting point, then fine-tune your senses and pay attention to your results and get measurements, get feedback, and adjust your program according to your results. I think that’s what most people miss. They get so lost in the dogma of a particular program of guru’s formula, that they’re not willing to experiment or change or test new things that might be the key to greater results.
burnthefat.com
Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto
Tom Nicoli: Now, when you mentioned cardio and strength, I had a client recently tell me that he has a friend who’s pretty fit, and he has pretty much tired to dominate his thinking, telling him he absolutely must get 45 minutes of cardio every time they go to the gym. This client of mine tells me that when he was in a program doing 20 minutes of cardio mixed with his strength training, he had better results doing less. Is this another trial and error, like you mentioned previously, with the carb intake and types of food you’ll eat, that you put forth the effort to do “X” amount of time cardio and “X” amount of time strength training. And if you are or are not getting results, you shift and change?
Tom Venuto: Yes, trial and error is a part of it, but you can bypass most of the trial and error by starting with a proven baseline diet and training system as your foundation. You can adjust from there if necessary, based on how your body responds. For example, the baseline for cardio training is my recommendation of three days a week at the appropriate heart rate and intensity. Add more if necessary, but use a proven and logical starting point.
With cardio, there are also ways you can make your workouts a lot more time efficient, which is probably what the person you mentioned did in order to get more results in less time. High-intensity interval training is one example, where you would do a minute or two of moderate intensity exercise followed by a minute of high intensity exercise, where you’re really pushing the heart rate above your normal training zone, and then you drop back down to moderate. You’d repeat these intervals for the duration of your workout.
What research has shown is that, not only does this burn a lot of calories during the workout; it keeps your metabolism elevated afterward for a longer period of time than if you go with low-intensity, long duration cardio such as walking. So there are ways, if you are extremely busy like so many people are these days, that you can make your workouts more time efficient. But I think you also need to have the willingness to do what it takes to reach your goal as well as have a certain amount of flexibility in your program.
Too many weight loss programs are extremely dogmatic and recommend only one type of workout, as if there were only one way to do it. There are some programs out there today that say, “Follow my program or else!” “The workout is 20 minutes three days a week, period,” and there’s no flexibility. It’s really more effective in the long-term if you allow yourself flexibility.
Look at your baseline program as a starting point, then fine-tune your senses and pay attention to your results and get measurements, get feedback, and adjust your program according to your results. I think that’s what most people miss. They get so lost in the dogma of a particular program of guru’s formula, that they’re not willing to experiment or change or test new things that might be the key to greater results.
burnthefat.com
Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto
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