As you are getting older, you’re probably realizing that perhaps it is more than just burning more calories than you consume to lose fat.
If you stop and think for a second – it makes sense. If it really were that easy, we would all have six-packs and there wouldn’t be thousands of diet and exercise books, right?
And no, you don’t have to work out more to burn more fat, too… although that’s what the media says (just add a few more minutes of this or a few days of this exercise, blah blah blah)
Although on paper, that seems the most obvious thing to do.
In fact, it’s why we end up even more frustrated… we work out longer and still… NOTHING.
This is especially true as we age… But because of how our hormones work as we get older, working out longer can actually cause you to STORE more fat.
The “bad guy” hormone is cortisol, a hormone that actually PROMOTES fat storage AND muscle breakdown. And longer workouts create more of this hormone in your body.
Now if you’re 19 and shredded, you probably don’t have a problem with cortisol. But for most of us, those days are gone, and so our workouts need to shift.
If you’re not seeing the results in the mirror, it’s not your fault.
You simply just need to “shift” your hormones in order to provide an environment where it’s EASIER to burn fat and you can do that with
shorter workouts…
…But it’s not as simple as just cutting your workouts short.
To maximize your fat burning and muscle sparing hormones like growth hormone, you’ll need a combination of strength training and “just enough” high intensity interval training (HIIT). Too much of HIIT can have a negative effect, too.
But when you use the perfect combination of these two approaches, you can actually fix your “slow” metabolism and hormones, which will
make a HUGE difference in your efforts (and in less time). These simple shifts in your workouts can easily double your results.
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