You go through a daily gut busting routine to keep fit and lose weight, but what if you found out that this daily routine can actually prevent you from loosing weight and push you closer to death.
Will you be shocked?
In every country around the world doing cardio exercise for fitness is well known and the first thing that anybody thinks of or tells you whenever the idea of weight loss is brought up is that “You’ve got to hit the treadmill, exercise bike or the streets and burn those calories!” It makes sense because after all, you’re doing a lot of work and you’re sweating and breathing heavy. Surely running a few miles every day must be dissolving those unsightly pounds like crazy, right?
Would you be surprised to hear that this is actually wrong? Although it sounds crazy, let me lay it out for you…
Cardio does burn calories, yes, it’s true. And yes, some cardio is good for you and in fact some light cardio exercise promotes a healthy heart and increase your endurance, but on the other hand heavy cardio actually has the opposite effects.
A common sense example to mention of this is the prehistoric man. These men and women are running around the Paleolithic world chasing down an antelope, red deer, bison, and the occasional wooly mammoth. Most of their diet comes from animal protein and what edible plants they can scrounge. If cardio was so great for losing weight, these people would simply starve to death while running down their food. All that cardio would burn through their energy reserves faster than they could replace them, but yet they didn’t starve to death and why?
For one thing, a lot of heavy cardio is hard on your knees, feet, and also hard on the heart. Too much cardio actually begins to add scar tissue to your heart and increases your rate of heart attack. No one realizes that for a while until many scientific studies were done on the subject. As for losing weight, excessive cardio actually has the reverse effect and here’s the reason why. Our bodies are genetically designed to survive and its job is to store energy as fuel both for immediate use in the form of fat for those times when food is scarce. In modern times, of course, food isn’t really scarce, so this built in safety feature is rarely needed. However, when you deprive your body of the nutrients it requires, either by starving yourself on some crazy diet or by over-taxing your body with lots of cardio, it begins to switch into survival mode.
Additionally, and unfortunately with heavy cardio, your body also becomes anabolic. This means that it begins to burn the most effective source of energy first and that’s not fat but your muscle. Take a good look at some of these chronic, long distance runners who compete. Many of them are kind of stringy looking and have to pack in the carbs just to maintain their muscle mass.
You want your body to burn fat, not muscle, obviously. It’s not really about calories, as many diets and so-called fitness gurus try to make you believe. Calories are only a means of measuring food energy. Yes, if you want to lose weight, you must take in less calories than you consume, yet there’s so much more to it than that. The biggest secret to weight loss isn’t running 10 miles every day, starving yourself, or even avoiding some of your favorite foods because believe it or not if you’re going to lose weight properly, it’s actually important that you do eat some of your favorite foods!
I know that sounds crazy, but it’s absolutely true. If you know how to use your body’s natural processes to your advantage, it’s entirely possible to lose 10, 20 or even 30+ pounds in a single month without starvation diets, gut wrenching cardio, ridiculous workouts, and eating anything gross! It’s true and there is a scientific study that proves it.
If you want to know the scientific proof backed by clinical studies click this link.
