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Squat and press: conditioning that’ll (nearly) blow your heart out!

Squat and press: conditioning that’ll (nearly) blow your heart out!

Too many gymgoers still focus on isolation exercises: curls, leg extensions, pec deck fly’s.. exercises where you move only one joint. This may be good when you are a bodybuilder, trying to give the finishing touch to your peaked bicep, striated quadriceps or bulging chest, but most likely you don’t fall into that category. If you want to lose fat and/or build muscle, you need to do exercises where you move multiple joints at a time, like squats, presses, chinups, etc. If you have been doing these exercises for a while and want to kick it up a notch, you can combine these exercises and do them together.

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Running for fat-loss

Running for fat-loss

Most people who want to lose weight, either

  • A: start a diet
  • B: start running
  • C: do both.

The C people are a lot closer to finding the holy grail of a lean body than the A and B people are, but are still light years away from finding it.

Long distance running (or any other form of steady state cardio performed for long durations) makes your body more efficient with energy expenditure. It teaches your body to use as little energy as possible for the task at hand, so you can keep going for longer periods of time. This phenomenon is great when you are training for a marathon or similar event, but makes it pretty much worthless as a fat loss tool.

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