A study in the Journal of Aging and Disease documented the effects of resistance circuit training on body composition adaptations for women.
The authors of the study observed that the training affected the subjects in different ways, based on their initial state (normal weight, overweight, and obese).
After doing 3 circuit training sessions per week, subjects who were deemed normal weight lost 4.6% body fat, those who were overweight lost 11% body fat, and the obese subjects experienced a 21.4% reduction in body fat.
And the best part is, their training sessions were only 30 minutes long.
The study also showed greater reductions in body fat mass for groups that performed circuits at a high intensity, compared to those who performed circuits at a low intensity…
Which PROVES pushing yourself in your workouts leads to GREATER reductions in body fat.
So why does circuit training work so well for eliminating body fat? Well, it’s basically a mix between resistance training and cardio.
Except this type of cardio (switching between exercises with minimal rest, and working your entire body), actually melts away body fat, whereas a 30 minute jog on the treadmill does not.
And when you’re doing 3-4 exercises in a row, you’re constantly changing which areas of your body are being worked. This drives up the Afterburn effect, or the amount of calories your body burns while you’re at rest.
And if women who had no background with exercise could achieve these drastic results, imagine what you could do with me coaching you along the way?
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