Instead of a few
hours of steady state cardio per week, perform 30 - 45 minutes of high - intensity cardio on a daily basis, preferably in the morning.
Hitting the dumbbells and adding lean muscle mass seems to be the latest fitness fad, here, we take a look at the
benefits of steady state cardio for calorie burning and fat loss.
As you know, I'm a huge advocate of high - intensity interval training, and combo cardio takes advantage of the speed and incredible EPOC benefits of HIIT and then combines them with the fat - oxidizing
abilities of steady state cardio.
Now as you probably know from reading my book and my newsletters, I'm NOT a
fan of steady state cardio... in fact, I think it's practically worthless for most of us.
Their research study, called the Tabata Protocol, published in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports & Exercise in 1996 concluded that just four minutes of high intensity Tabata interval training did more to increase aerobic and anaerobic capacity than did an hour
of steady state cardio exercise.
This is what I've learned: if you're a beginner you should start with building a baseline: build up to 20 - 30
mins of steady state cardio at a moderate pace (running, rowing, things like that) and learn the squat, deadlift, pull up, inverted row, overhead and military press and the bench press.