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How I Stumbled Across the Best Fat Burning Workout Ever by Craig Ballantyne

I've been meaning to write this email for a long time. Today I'm going to give you the story of how I solved the problem of getting an efficient and effective fat loss program finished in 45 minutes.

Essentially, how I stumbled across the best fat burning workout ever.

And then I'll end with a sample workout for you...

But first, let's take a trip down memory lane to the winter of 98-99. I was but a lowly grad student, studying the effects of androstenedione (the supplement taken by the might Mark McGwire during his record-breaking home run quest in '98).

In my study (which was published in the Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology for any science nerds like myself out there), we had guys use the supplement and go through a couple of weight training sessions. By February of '99 I was stuck in the lab, analyzing the blood samples using some fancy radio-active isotopes.

And when I say stuck in the lab, I mean STUCK. I'd get there at 7am, and record my last data point at 11pm. Sixteen hours of mad science. And if I wasn't there, I was downstairs in the medical library, studying papers on testosterone and training.

Now coming from a very athletic background, this sedentary lifestyle didn't sit well with me. But there I was, studing for a degree in Exercise Physiology and left with no time for exercise. Or so I thought.

Fortunately, I actually had a 50 minute window once per day of "down-time" while the lab's gamma-counter analyzed blood samples.

That left me 50 minutes to get to the gym (5 minutes across campus) and get a workout in the remaining 40 or so minutes. I knew that if I applied my studies to the workout, I could get maximum results in minimum time.

As a former athlete, I knew that I had to find a way to stay fit and to avoid the fat gain that comes with working long hours in a sedentary environment. And I also had to stay true to the high-school bodybuilder I once was, so there was no way I was willing to sacrifice my muscle to one of those long-cardio, low protein fat-loss plans that were popular at the time.

Instead, I had to draw on my academic studies and my experiences working with athletes as the school's Strength & Conditioning Coach.

I knew that sprint intervals were associated with more fat loss than slow cardio, and I knew that you could also increase aerobic fitness by doing sprints (but you can't increase sprint performance by doing aerobic training).

So clearly, intervals were (and ARE!) superior to long slow cardio.

I had seen first hand the incredible results of sprint intervals in the summer and fall, as the athletes made huge fitness improvements and shed winter fat in a short time using my interval programs. I knew that intervals had to be the next step in the evolution of cardio.

The biggest benefit of intervals? A lot of results in a short amount of time. I knew that I only had 40 minutes to train, and therefore I could only spend 15-20 minutes doing intervals.

Now onto the strength training portion of the workouts. I knew that a high-volume bodybuilding program wasn't going to cut it - I just didn't have time. But in the past year I had read so many lifting studies, that I knew exactly what exercises I needed to do to maximize my lifting time in the gym.

Those exercises were standing, multi-muscle, movements such as squats, presses, rows, power cleans, and plenty of other standing single-leg exercises. I knew that those exercises would bring me far more results than those people sitting on machines would ever achieve.

And I also knew that I had to lift heavier than the average Joe or Jane Gym-goer lifts. I just knew that doing lighter weights and high-reps wasn't going to cut it. And a research study from 2001 later showed that I was right - when women did 8 reps per set, they had a significantly greater increase in post-workout metabolism than if they did 15 reps per set.

So I had my plan. Bust my tail over to the gym, through the cold, dreary Canadian winter afternoon, and do a quick but thorough warmup (specific to my lifts - none of that 5 minutes on the treadmill waste of time).

Once I got through the warm-up, I did as many sets as I could in the remainder of the 20 minutes for strength training.

At that point, I knew that supersets were the only way to go if I wanted to maximize the number of sets I could do...so the non-competing superset of Turbulence Training was put in place.

By non-competing, I mean that the 2 exercises in the superset don't interfere with one another. So you can use upper and lower body exercises together, or pushing and pulling exercises. Just be careful not to use two grip-intensive exercises together in a superset - otherwise, one exercise will suffer, if not both.

And then I followed up the strength training with intervals, as I knew these had to follow the lifting, otherwise it would not be the correct exercise order. Remember, intervals first leads to premature fatigue. Lift first, cardio later. Forget that old wives tale about doing cardio first to burn more fat. That's junk.

You know, I remember the exact day and exact workout that this all came together into the fat burning program. It hit me as I was finishing my intervals. I knew I had found something that was like fat loss magic.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to put it in a pill. But I've been able to put it down on paper in the fat burning programs.

The exact workout I used that day went like this...

Warm-up

1 set of Bodyweight Squats

1 set of pushups

1 set of Squats with the empty bar

1 set of light dumbbell chest presses

1 set of moderate weight barbell squats

1 set of moderate weight dumbbell chest presses

Strength Training Superset #1 - Barbell Squats paired with Dumbbell Chest Presses (3 supersets, aiming for 8 reps per side per set)

Strength Training Superset #2 - DB Rows paired with Barbell Forward Lunges (3 supersets, aiming for 8 reps per set)

Stationary Bike Intervals

After a warmup, I did 6 intervals of 45 seconds work and 45 seconds rest, finishing with a cool-down.

And from that point in time, I've tried to share this and all the other fat burning workouts with as many men and women as possible.

The same men and women that I would see day-in and day-out performing the same ineffective slow-cardio fat loss programs, and not making a darn change month after month. And every day they would see me, soaked in sweat, feeling great and looking lean, and finishing another fat burning workout.

Eventually I noticed these other men and women weren't around as consistently as before, and then soon enough they would drop out completely -after all, they weren't getting results with their slow cardio and aerobics classes (yep, those were still around in '99!).

And so here we are today...thousands of fat burning workouts later.

These fat burning workouts are the #1 way to fast fat loss.

Thanks for being a part of the fat burning revolution, and for sharing this new and improved fat loss training and cardio system with the world.

So when you see someone frustrated with their ineffective fat loss program, tell them there is a better way. It's research-based, efficient, and most of all, effective. And yes, it goes against the crowd. But it works.

And these fat burning workouts are now better than ever.

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Want to discover easy ways to lose weight fast? Will you have a special event coming up in the future and you want to know the easiest way to lose weight so you look wonderful? Whatever the special event, whether it's a wedding, a dance, or a reunion you can start today and be happy to realize that you can take the additional weight off in the quickest time possible.

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You should include an exercise program to your plan of attack. You don't have to run and jog to lose weight naturally. Those will mostly enhance your endurance. If you are looking for simple ways to lose you may well be surprised to find out that walking may be one of the best exercises that you can do to lose weight quickly.

You will find that the quickest way to lose weight fast is when you combine a diet plan pill supplement with exercise and an effective diet plan.

You see it all the time in the news. One week they will say you want to do a low carbohydrate plan and also the very next week they are going to say to do a reduced fat diet. These diets are ineffective and if the news people stood a diet that really worked they wouldn't keep pushing every one of these fad diets. What you eat is not what is making you fat. The situation most of us have is we are not eating the right amounts of certain foods in the right combination. This is the big one most of us mess up. If we eat our foods in the right combination, we turn our bodies into a fat burning machine.

When you want to discover easy ways to lose weight fast, then listen to me get a good diet supplement, perform some low impact exercise, in order to find a diet plan that really works for you like the one I discovered that works for me. It wasn't until I learned to mix my foods properly that I began to really lose weight.

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