Georgetown Personal Trainer Reveals The #1 Fitness Myth
If you have been running all over beautiful Georgetown and are not noticing any weight loss you may be interested in knowing what the latest studies are suggesting. If for an entire year a man, at his target heart rate, were to exercise 6 days out of 7 for 1 hour each session he would lose in that year a mere 6 and 1 half pounds.
In essence, to lose 20 pounds at most, you would need to exercise approximately 20 hours a week!
If you have heard that with aerobic exercise you can effectively burn fat, then you are privy to the biggest myth in fitness and personal training today. Fitness experts or high priced personal trainers often will present you with a couple of reasons aerobics should be part of your fat-losing regimen:
Myth #1: Aerobic exercise burns more calories. While aerobic exercise does burn calories, it does not burn them efficiently. For example, if you exercise aerobically for 45 minutes on an elliptical machine, you’ll burn roughly 500 calories.
Compare to that if you will the 700 calories you would lose in the exact same amount of time with resistance training (weight lifting) and interval training (alternating high and low intensity exercise). That is 40% more calories lost with 30 minutes of weight lifting and 15 minutes of interval training. This also will leave your metabolism elevated for 24 to 36 hours afterward, which cannot be said with aerobics.
Being that people in Georgetown live a fast paced life I am sure you will agree that aerobics just is not the way to go. There is no need for a personal trainer’s supervision for you to reach your goals. There is no need to see them every day, if you are getting results using a detailed plan created for you.
Myth#2: The fat burning zone is reached through aerobics exercise. Although you burn a larger percentage of calories during an aerobic exercise from fat, you should know that it is actually a larger percent of a smaller number. Therefore, it is actually less fat burnt. We burn 80 to 90% of the calories throughout the day, and it has repeatedly been shown that with resistance training increases the percentage of calories burnt during the day.
The reality is that 15 minutes of interval training will do more for your cardiovascular fitness than 45 minutes of jogging. So, if you start talking to a personal trainer in Georgetown and they start talking about how you need to go jogging or do cardio for 45min per day, run the other way!
Here’s a great fat burning workout that you can do in Georgetown absolutely free, no personal trainer required:
#1. Start at the Exorcist steps. You know, the ones on M st. in the Exxon gas station parking lot.
#2. Warm up by walking up and down the stairs once. Then follow that by jogging up the stairs but walk down them again.
#3. Run to the top of the stairs, walk down, rest at the bottom for 1min. Repeat for 12 rounds or 15 minute, whichever comes first.
With that view of Georgetown, you just got better results in less time!
