I was walking home from the gym when I passed by a young women – she was about 28 years old – who was talking on her phone. And I heard her say, “I’m going for a walk now to get some exercise because I’m going out for a bad dinner tonight.”
No – no – no – no – no!
That doesn’t work. It never has, it never will. You can’t out-cardio a bad diet. This is the one mistake that ALL women have made at ONE point in their life.
And to be honest, it goes for almost all of the guys I know, too.
But at best, this poor girl will only burn an extra 300-500 calories during her walk – if it’s a really, really long walk. However…at dinner, she’s likely to eat 400-700 calories during the appetizer alone, or consume that in liquid calories with wine! (NOTE: By “bad dinner”, I’m guessing she meant a high-calorie meal, and not a dreadful date with a deadbeat ex-boyfriend.)
AND remember, as I’ve mentioned in the past, one British study found that some people OVEREAT in response to cardio exercise. So when dinner comes around, this poor girl might think, “Oh, I did that long walk today, so I can treat myself to a bigger dinner or extra dessert.”
Whatever her reason, a single cardio session will not beat a bad diet.
The only thing that comes close to beating a bad diet is interval training and resistance training.
Back in 2007, an Australian research study on interval training was getting a lot of press for the surprising results. In the study, women who did interval training were able to lose belly fat without
changing their diet.
In fact, one subject, named Louise, said this:
My diet was pretty bad back then, with lots of sweets, lots of junk food…doughnuts and sugar — it was awful.
And yet by the end of this study, interval training helped Louise burn 8kg of fat in just 15 weeks – WITHOUT changing her diet.
Perhaps it IS POSSIBLE for you to out-train a bad diet – but only if you use interval training. And that’s just another reason Turbulence Training is based on this specific type of fat burning exercise.
So please choose intervals and metabolic resistance supersets and circuits to help you sculpt your body…you will get more results than taking a long walk, I promise.
Your friend (still, I hope?),
