I Don't Really "HATE" Long, Slow Cardio...

by Curtis Hoekstra under

I need to be clear about something.

I'm not long slow cardio "hater", really I'm not.

But I am about getting results in the shortest amount of time,

results in the real world.

Listen, when I was single, back in college, with nothing

better to do than to spend hours in the gym, extended cardio sessions were just fine.

Now days, with my wife, 2 baby boys and a busy life...

seriously, who has that kind of time to spend running on a treadmill?

I sure don't. My guess is that you don't either.

So let's look at this from another angle.

If I had two options for optimum fat loss: interval training or long steady state cardio training, I would always use the interval option.

Why?

Well, I'm a big believer in maximizing time and accelerating benefits for my clients, and the majority of my clients (heck the majority of the world's population) is always short on time.

So realistically, long slow cardio sessions don't work in the real world.

Not to mention the increased results that interval training brings to the table!

But once the weight training and interval training is completed, there is no problem with doing long slow cardio sessions (if you have the time).

Long slow cardio is not evil and it will not compromise your results, if your nutrition is on track and you are performing the proper strength training first.

Just don't make these "cardio-thon" sessions the focus of your fat loss efforts.

Make today better than yesterday and enjoy!

Posted by Curtis Hoekstra at 7:00 AM 0 comments

3 Olympic Predictions

by Curtis Hoekstra under , , , ,
A colleague of mine, Craig Ballantyne, recently shared 3 Olympic Predictions:

Have you caught any of the Olympics yet?

What an exciting time!

You've got Michael Phelps and Dana Torres, the impossible-to-predict
battle for Olympic Basketball Gold, Canada's superstar - Adam van
Koeverden, the heart-warming and heart-breaking individual stories in
gymnastics, and my favorite event, the 100 meter sprint.

I can't wait to see who will be this year's World's Fastest Man.
(Personally, I'm hoping Tyson Gay pulls off a mini-upset.)

I've been studying many of the matchups, and here are my 2008
Summer Olympic predictions:

1) The Sprinters will have better bodies than the Marathon Runners

Not a real surprise here, as Marathon runners have been
losing this battle since the inception of the Modern Games
in 1896.

Sprinters, on the other hand, have lean, six pack abs physiques and
use the training methods that will also help you get a better body,
including multi-muscle resistance exercises and short, burst
interval-type fat burning exercise.

Just like Boot Camp!

2) The Weightlifters will be strong because they use classic, multi-
muscle exercises...

... not because they have been standing on a BOSU ball
on one leg all day long, while touching their nose with one hand and scratching
their butts with the other.

And in an Olympic Shocker, we'll see dozens of strong women who lift
heavy weights and aren't "big and bulky". Instead, they are lean,
athletic and have low body fat (and they don't do long, boring cardio either!).

3) The gymnasts will ALL have six pack abs...

...but not one of them has probably ever wasted training time doing countless crunches.

So those are my predictions, and I'm betting I'm 100% right on...

But that brings up the question, if that's how lean, fit Olympians
train, then why do you see most folks in the gym doing...

a) long, slow boring cardio?
b) useless single muscle exercises that have no carry-over to real life?
c) hundreds and hundreds of ab crunches?

Listen, I doubt any boot campers are going to be competing in the
Olympics, but it doesn't mean we can't train with the same
principles to help us lose fat and get lean, fit bodies.

Have an amazing week!
Posted by Curtis Hoekstra at 7:51 AM 0 comments
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