Evolution really does hold the key when it comes to fat loss in 2009. Increasing your daily intake of good quality protein and reducing your exercise duration will kick start your metabolism quicker than ever before.
Our body still hasn’t evolved as quickly as society would have us believe. Just like our hunter gather days a lack of quality protein is a sign of starvation and our body is quick to hold onto fat our preferred energy source. Eat good quality protein and foods you can either pick from a tree or dig up from the ground and you will come out of starvation mode and start to drop the fat.
Evolution also explains what exercise we are best served to perform today. Again back in our Hunter Gather Days we were either the hunter or being hunted and this involved short intense bursts of energy. We wouldn’t have been jogging around for 20 minutes as this would have served no purpose to our survival.
Research has even proven that sticking to what we have evolved to do produces better results. Mr Tabata discovered this intense exercise protocol and research shows that:
“Tabata protocol showed that a 4 minute anaerobic workout (very intense) produced 40% better improvement in aerobic capacity when compared to 60 minutes of aerobic work at 70% V02 max. Also improved anaerobic capacity by 28%, aerobic work did not improve anaerobic capacity at all.” Med Sci Exerc, 1996 Oct 28 (10)
So 4 minutes of very intense exercise (eg. sprinting) is better than 60 minutes of jogging for improving your health. The bonus is that this intensity also produces a “metabolic disturbance” that will have you burning fat for hours following your workout; you don’t get this following a 60 minute jog.
In the busy world that we all live in today not many people have the time or inclination to exercise for hours at a time and the good news is that you don’t have too. Keep your exercise short and intense and increase you quantity of quality protein, fruit and veg and you’ll be looking and feeling great in 2009.
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