woman training

I just saw an article – on another blog – that indicated you could burn fat with 1 exercise. That exercise was the deadlift.

You can see the full article here:
Getting Rid of Fat Through Dead Lift

Before I give my opinion of this article, I want to let you know where I am coming from.

I believe you are smart, that you are interested in the absolute truth and the best nutrition, fitness and health advice you can get.

Your desire to have a great body demands that. So if it seems I am a little harsh on some of the other so called fitness gurus out there, you are right.

Most of them don’t have a clue as to what they are talking about. This article illustrates the exact point.

In fact the whole article is hard to read and doesn’t even use proper grammer. This is typical of article farms. They put out one article and hundreds of gurus spin the article and hope somebody clicks on their links.

The spinning of the article is done automatically so that they don’t even have to touch it.

You will not find that here. I write all the articles, or will let you know if I use a guest article.

All grammer errors are mine, all statements are mine. If you like these posts, just keep reading. If not, then you don’t have to come back.

Okay, with that little rant done, let’s get to the other blog post.

The deadlift is a great exercise. It is right next to squats as far as being one of the best metabolic exercises around.

But, will it – by itself – help you get rid of body fat? The answer is no. There is no one exercise that will help you burn body fat forever.

In order to burn body fat you need to do enough exercise to stress your body. This will affect your hormones and cause a metabolic effect over your whole body.

But, that is only if you stress your body enough to cause the hormonal response.

While deadlifts are tough, they are not enough. And even though the exercise is tough, that becomes the problem.

Almost everyone will do the deadlift, rest, do the next set, rest and so on. This continual resting is the problem. It lowers the stress levels so that you never reach the metabolic threshold that will burn body fat.

Remember you are not trying to burn fat while you are exercising. You are trying to raise the stress levels high enough to get into the after burn effect (EPOC) so that you can burn body fat for up to 48 hours after the exercise session stops.

You won’t do that with just deadlifts. Now if you wanted to do deadlifts, that is great, but you have to do some active rest in between deadlift sets.

This active rest should actually be pretty tough. One thing that has shown to increase fat burning by up to 962% is getting on an exercise bike and pedaling as fast as you can for 30-60 seconds in between sets.

So do one set of deadlifts, pedal on the bike, do the next set of deadlifts, pedal, and so on for however many sets you are going to do. Do not rest between the deadlifts and the pedaling or between the pedaling and the deadlifts.

In this way you can burn fat with 2 exercises. You will just be burning it after the exercise is done.

Woman Training

Hi,

Let’s look at the exercise protocols we have been talking about the last few posts.

First we saw how long cardio sessions are not the most productive way to burn fat.  Short bursts of exercise are much better for burning fat and sprinting is an excellent way to rev up your metabolism.

Then we added a word of caution for those of you who thinking doing more of something – even if it is good for you – is the best way to go.

It isn’t.  Your body can only take so much.  You and your coach have to find that balance point of pushing yourself without over pushing yourself.

There are a lot of exercise protocols that are really pushing the envelope for fitness.

These are usually high intensity programs.  The premise is to get you sweating and breathing hard for a really long period of time.

Again this is a problem.  Your body needs breaks from non-stop activity.

So doing 10 pushups, 10 squats, 10 lunges, 10 pushups, 10 pullups, 10 DB shoulder presses and so on non stop is not the way to go.

However, doing just that will burn more fat.  the problem is you can’t do it for long.  Trying to go 45-60 minutes non-stop will only work for very young fitness buffs.

That doesn’t mean these fitness programs are entirely wrong.  They have the right idea.  They just fall victim to the same “more is better” mantra that is so popular.

So what can you do?

Let’s break the above example down.  Instead of doing 10 pushups, 10 squats and so on, do this instead.

Do as many pushups as you can, then stand up and do as many squats as you can.  Don’t worry about making a certain number, just do as many as you can.

Now rest.  Rest until you feel like you are ready to go again.  Do as many pushups as you can, then do as many squats as you can.

Rest again.  When you are ready, go on and do two different exercises.  Repeat the same pattern as above.

When you are done with those two exercises, then do one more group of two different exercises the same way.

Now this program is not designed to work on strengthening or building up  a specific muscle – although it can be adapted for this pretty easily.

Rather this program is designed to improve your fitness levels.  And it will help you burn fat much easier.

Stay tuned for ways to modify this specifically for you.

Thanks,