Weight Loss Mistake #1 -- too much cardio
In a previous post I made a light-hearted comment about "cardio queen." But the truth is, that's something you DON'T want to be.
Take a look at the "cardio queens" that you know. Look at the ladies who lead the cardio classes at your gym. Heck, look at Richard Simmons. What do you notice about a lot of them? They're soft looking, undefined, and it seems like they haven't transformed much recently.
You see, an ideal program to lose weight involves some cardio, some weight lifting, and some diet changes. But as women we're taught that weight lifting is for men.
BULLHONKEY!
Believe me, unless you take tons of steroids and dedicate your life to weight lifting, you will NOT get big. I personally lift as hard and heavy as I can -- and I've totally shrunk this past year. The fat melted off and the muscles are more visible -- but by no means are they big!
But I digress (I'll rant on weight lifting myths for women another time)...
The point is, women have been taught that in order to lose weight, you need to eat like three carrots a day and spend 2 hours doing cardio. That's absolutely the wrong way to go about it.
Why?
Because when you do that, your body think it's starving. It think it needs to conserve fat so it has energy to go through all the hours of cardio you put it through. In fact, your body will even start burning off your muscle -- that's why some of those cardio queens look so soft! And since the more muscle you have the more calories you burn, you DON'T want that to happen to you.
Eventually your body adapts to all the cardio, and in order to see further changes you need to do even MORE cardio. You'll run yourself ragged doing this. In the end you'll be "skinny fat" -- the same shape as you were before, still fat, but just a smaller version of your previous self.
Yuck.
Listen, here's the bottom line: you can get a LOT better results by doing FAR less work.
What a relief, eh?
Bookmark this blog, because we'll be talking in more detail about exactly what you should be doing to get the results you want...
Take a look at the "cardio queens" that you know. Look at the ladies who lead the cardio classes at your gym. Heck, look at Richard Simmons. What do you notice about a lot of them? They're soft looking, undefined, and it seems like they haven't transformed much recently.
You see, an ideal program to lose weight involves some cardio, some weight lifting, and some diet changes. But as women we're taught that weight lifting is for men.
BULLHONKEY!
Believe me, unless you take tons of steroids and dedicate your life to weight lifting, you will NOT get big. I personally lift as hard and heavy as I can -- and I've totally shrunk this past year. The fat melted off and the muscles are more visible -- but by no means are they big!
But I digress (I'll rant on weight lifting myths for women another time)...
The point is, women have been taught that in order to lose weight, you need to eat like three carrots a day and spend 2 hours doing cardio. That's absolutely the wrong way to go about it.
Why?
Because when you do that, your body think it's starving. It think it needs to conserve fat so it has energy to go through all the hours of cardio you put it through. In fact, your body will even start burning off your muscle -- that's why some of those cardio queens look so soft! And since the more muscle you have the more calories you burn, you DON'T want that to happen to you.
Eventually your body adapts to all the cardio, and in order to see further changes you need to do even MORE cardio. You'll run yourself ragged doing this. In the end you'll be "skinny fat" -- the same shape as you were before, still fat, but just a smaller version of your previous self.
Yuck.
Listen, here's the bottom line: you can get a LOT better results by doing FAR less work.
What a relief, eh?
Bookmark this blog, because we'll be talking in more detail about exactly what you should be doing to get the results you want...
posted by Rebecca at 6:07 AM
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