Achieve 8% Body Fat (Or Less!) With a Targeted Cardio Workout Routine
The majority of exercisers do not do proper cardio workout routines. It is no wonder that so many experts have said recently that cardio is NOT an effective way to lose body fat. This is not to say that aerobic exercise is not a good method of losing body fat; it just means that people aren’t doing it correctly. The following cardio workout routine is the best way to burn body fat down to single digit percentages.
1. For four to five hours preceding your cardio workout routine, do not ingest any calories.
If you currently have many pounds to drop, you will want to eat a snack or small meal prior to performing your aerobic exercise. If you are trying to get below 8% body fat, then you don’t have that luxury! You must make your body use fat as energy as you start to get a lower percentage of total body fat. The most effective method of doing this, is to make sure you do not have any food that could be used as fuel instead of fat in your body. Don’t worry about muscle loss. Your body will produce a large spike in HGH when training in a fasted state. Thus, muscle mass will be preserved, which gets rid of even more fat post workout.
2) Do Intense Interval Training for 10-15 Minutes
At the start of your aerobic exercise session, you will want to do 10 minutes of high-intensity cardio. What this does is trigger HGH release and more importantly it releases fatty acids into the bloodstream. As compared to uniform rates of cardio at a slower speed, concentrated burst of intervals release a greater amount of fat. Low-intensity aerobic exercise is perfect for turning the fatty acids into fuel, so you will perform this form of exercise next.
3. Execute a Uniform Cardio Routine for 20-30 Minutes
After doing intervals on a piece of cardio equipment, hop on a treadmill (or elliptical) and go at a fast walking pace for 20-30 minutes. Do not over-exert yourself, but make sure the pace is a little faster than normal. In all actuality, you might perform this kind of exercise for more than a half hour if you want to. Every minute that you can spend while in a fasted state will effectively burn those expelled fatty acids from the body.
4. Wait at last one hour to eat after your cardio workout routine is finished.
The high-intensity interval exercise is going to stimulate the production of HGH to burn fat, and this will keep happening for between 1 and 2 hours following the end of the exercise. If you do not wait until an hour after working out to eat, your insulin level will increase, which will stop the production of HGH. You will want to hold off from eating until an hour has passed to get the best results. There are numerous so-called cardio workout routines that are ineffective at burning fat, but this one will not disappoint.