Tuesday, March 30, 2010

3 Reasons Why Circuit Training is Great For Losing Fat

As many of you know, I'm a big fan of circuit training and think it's MASSIVELY under-utilized and misused in the fitness industry.

Done correctly, circuit training can accomplish a whole ton of different goals. (Which, incidentally, is why I used it almost exclusively when I put together the "Working Class Cardio Workout".) But one of the things circuit training can be used for the best is fat loss.

Why is that? A few reasons actually.

#1 - Circuit training just plain makes you work. Stack together big, compound movements (done the right way that is - you can't just slap together any old combination of exercises and make it work) with very little overall rest, and you're working your ass off. This kinda hard work leads to burning a ton of calories, which leads to losing fat.

#2 - Circuit training builds muscle. Again, done correctly, circuit training will help you build muscle, which is important to losing fat b/c muscle burns more calories at rest than fat does. This means your body will burn more calories just to
sustain itself - and that's when you're *not* working out.

#3 - Circuit training is intense. If you've heard of interval training (which has become highly popular in recent years in the fitness industry), you'll likely know one of the reasons why it's so popular for burning fat is that it's so intense, that
it jacks up your metabolism, so that you continue to burn calories for hours after your workout is over.

Well, intense circuit training allows you to do the same exact thing, only it's not nearly as hard on your nervous system as interval training is.

I could go on for a while, but I think you get the picture...put simply circuit training is kickass stuff.

BUT...you just have to know how to do it right. If not, well, then you end up getting the same stinko results all the lycra-clad weenies using chrome universal machines did...which is what gave circuit training such a bad rap in the first place.

So how you do you avoid falling into the same trap all the lycra-clad weenies did?

Simple - just get the "Working Class Cardio Workout".

Everything is laid out for you - step by step, exercise by exercise, rep by rep. You'll know what to do, and when to do it. You'll know when to do heavy stuff, when to do explosive stuff, when to do shorter circuits, when to do longer ones, when to take "backoff" periods, and a whole lot more.

It's all right there in black & white - just do what you're told, and watch the results happen.

So why are you still reading this?

=>GET THE "WORKING CLASS CARDIO WORKOUT" AND START LOSING FAT TODAY

Train Hard, Rest Hard, Play Hard-
Matt "Wiggy" Wiggins
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