Long
duration cardio such as jogging, cross-training or cycling for 30 minutes or more is a great way to lose muscle!
Not exact matches
Choose the combination of type, intensity,
duration and frequency that suits your lifestyle and preferences the best, and WORK THE VARIABLES to get the fat loss results you want, but whichever
cardio program you choose, remember that a solid fat burning nutrition program,
such as Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle is necessary to help you make the most of it.
What I'm referring to here are the
cardio exercises that you choose (
such as a treadmill or bike) and not the specific
cardio methodology (
such as low intensity / long
duration LISS
cardio or high intensity / low
duration HIIT
cardio).
We know that short bursts of high intensity training reprograms your genes to burn fat and grow muscle, while long
duration steady state
cardio has no
such reprogramming effect.
It is amazing to be able to get significant results from a program that lasts only 20 minutes in
duration, but Phil has put
such a program together with Sprint 8 and he has spent 40 years researching, testing and perfecting his
cardio protocol.