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14 Juli

Georgetown Personal Trainer Reveals The #1 Fitness Myth

by Josef Brandenburg

Ever wonder why it is that you can get out and run and run and run in beautiful Georgetown and not seem to lose the weight? Well some of the latest research suggests that if a man works out at his target heart rate for a full one hour per day and he did this for a full six days every week for the period of one year, that man would lose six and one half pounds of body fat per year.

That means that, given that equation you would need to work out a total of nearly 20 hours per week in order to lose a mere twenty pound of weight.

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: You can burn more calories with aerobic exercise. Although aerobics dose burn calories, it is not as efficient as people believe. For instance, to burn roughly 500 calories you would need to work out 45 minutes on an elliptical machine.

On the other hand, by doing 30 minutes of resistance training such as weight lifting, and approximately 15 minutes alternating between high and low intensity exercise also known as interval training you will burn 40% more in the same amount of time! That is roughly 700 calories! As an added benefit that aerobics doesn’t give you, your metabolism stays elevated for 24 to 36 hours after this work out.

Given the fast pace of life in Georgetown, the later is much better alternative. Also, you don’t need a personal trainer to supervise all of your workouts. As long as they create a detailed plan for you, then you can get great results without having to see them every day.

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.

As a matter of fact, 45 minutes of jogging is less beneficial to your cardiovascular fitness than 15 minutes of interval training. The only running you should be doing in Georgetown is running in the opposite direction of the personal trainer that tells you to jog or do cardio for 45 minutes a day!

For a terrific exercise, no personal trainer or equipment needed, that can be done right here in Georgetown read on:

#1. Walk over to M street and locate the Exxon gas station, were going to start at the Exorcist steps.

#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. Now that you are warmed up run to the very top of the stairs, walk down and rest for approximately one minute at the bottom. Repeat this for 15 minutes or 12 times whichever comes first.

With that view of Georgetown, you just got better results in less time!

About the Author:

Josef Brandenburg is a prize winning Georgetown personal fitness trainer. He is also author of The Body You Want, and has appeared in The Washington Post and Entrepreneur Magazine. To get a FREE copy of his new CD Why Eat Less and Exercise More Is The Worst Advice Ever click here.

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