Weight Loss and Fat Loss Workout

Many of my private training clients ask me about weight loss/fat loss workouts they can perform on their own as an adjunct to their one-one-one sessions with me. Similarly, my newsletter and blog subscribers often inquire about fat loss oriented workouts they can do at home with a limited and inexpensive equipment set-up. The perfect solution lies in a new workout, Turbulence Training, designed by world renowned fitness and performance coach Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, a regular contributor to national magazines such as Men's Health and Oxygen.

The beauty of Craig's TT workouts is that they can be performed at home-and certainly at any gym-with limited equipment: bodyweight, dumbbells, and resistance bands. Furthermore, the TT workout formats give you a tremendous "bang for your buck" in that they provide a strength training and cardiovascular conditioning workout at once, with the main goal of efficient fat loss.

Craig's methods seek to optimize post workout calorie burn. Think of your metabolism as a fire. During the TT workouts, the flame of your fire may reach its peak. However, the great thing about Craig's workouts is that, for many hours after your workout is complete, your flame continues to burn. Unlike traditional cardiovascular and strength training workouts where your metabolic "fire" burns out almost immediately after the workout is complete, the Turbulence Training workouts allow your metabolism to continue incinerating calories for many hours. How does it do this? By using multiple joint compound exercises, short rest periods, and interval training.

Finally, the variety Craig incorporates into the TT workouts is 2nd to none. I've been involved in this industry for 15 years, and I thought I saw and tried every exercise variation imaginable...I was WRONG! Craig incorporates movements into the workouts I didn't even know existed, and all of this variety in movement patterns keeps your physiology off guard and, ultimately, keeps you gaining. The TT workouts certainly create a constant "metabolic disturbance" necessary for long term fat loss.

If you would like more information about Craig's Turbulence Training, click on the banner below:

Fat Loss Workouts

Check out the link below from fellow fitness professional Alwyn Cosgrove:

http://alwyncosgrove.blogspot.com/2008/02/what-is-afterburn-effect.html

Alwyn does an excellent job of explaining how high intensity resistance training and interval training can elevate your metabolism for hours after your workout, allowing you to continue burning calories and, ultimately, body fat even after you have stopped working out.

If you are a client or regular reader of my blog, you'll know I don't advocate an exercise only prescription for weight and fat loss because exercise is just too inefficient in terms of burning calories. However, THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULDN'T TRY TO MAXIMIZE THE CALORIE BURNING EFFECTS OF EXERCISE. This means you should perform high intensity activities-strength training, metabolic resistance training, and interval cardiovascular training-which cause the largest metabolic disturbance and lead to the greatest post-workout caloric expenditure.

For maximum fat loss, one should combine the types of high intensity activities discussed above AND adhere to a proven fat loss nutrition regimen which provides a caloric deficit and a nutrient ratio which optimizes the thermic effect of feeding. THE PRECISION NUTRITION SYSTEM does both...check is out HERE.