THE HIDDEN TRUTH ABOUT CARDIO
How your daily gut busting routine
may actually be preventing weight loss and pushing you closer to death.
In western cultures like ours,
countries like
the U.S., UK, Australia, Canada and
other European nations,
what’s the first thing that anybody
thinks of or tells you whenever the idea of weight loss is brought up?
You’ve got to hit the treadmill,
exercise bike or the streets and burn those calories!
On the surface of it, this makes
sense, right? 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 LB’s like
crazy, right?
Would you be surprised to hear that
this is actually wrong?
No, I’m not crazy
–
let me lay it out for you...
Yes, cardio does burn calories, it’s
true. And yes, some cardio isgood for you. Light cardio promotes a healthy
heart and increases your endurance. On the other hand, though...
heavy cardio actually begins to have
the opposite effects.
Before I get into why, let me give
you a simple but common sense example. Imagine pre-historic Man.
These men and women are running
around the Paleolithic world chasing down antelope, red deer, aurox, bison and
the occasional wooly mammoth. Most of their diet comes from animal protein and what
edible plants they can scrounge.
Well, 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.
Yet they didn’t starve to death... why?
For one thing, a lot of heavy cardio
is hard on your knees and feet. Second, it’s also hard on the heart.
Too much cardio actually begins to
add scar tissue to your heart and increases your rate of heart attack.
We didn’t realize 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 why. Our bodies are genetically
designed to survive. Our body’s job is to store energy as fuel both for its immediate
use and 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... it’s 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 carbs, believe it or not. In fact, 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, too
–
but it’s absolutely true, and I can
prove it to you!
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 I can show
you the science to prove it!
Want to know more about dropping
some stubborn LB’s right away? Then click this link and I’ll
show you a video that’ll explain how and show you the science backed by
independent clinical studies to prove it.




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