HERE is a question I get asked a lot: does slow and steady win the race?
The "race" is about fat loss, and the question is: "Is it better to lose weight quickly or slowly?"
This is a fantastic question, and the answer is surprising.
Most fitness professionals believe losing somewhere in the area of one or two pounds per week is the best way to go.
They argue that by allowing clients to lose weight over time, those clients will learn better habits, leading to more permanent results.
This is what they are always teaching in school, and that is what makes logical sense, right? Wrong! If you know anything about me, you know that I have an "all or nothing" type of personality, and as such I feel it's better to sprint rather than run a marathon.
Because of this I always design programmes geared for exceptionally fast results, like my seven pounds in seven days programme.
Over the past 15 years in the fitness industry, I have learned that one or two pounds per week can be effective, but there are definitely better (and faster) ways to go about things.
It's the same principle as high-intensity interval training.
In the past, people thought slow cardio was the most effective way to lose weight.
Now we know that if we have "sprint" periods and "rest" periods we can get much faster results.
The same applies to individual workouts, if you alternate periods of intense workouts with periods of rest.
In doing so, quick results produce higher levels of motivation in clients, and our likelihood of producing long-term results goes up.
Weight loss becomes sustainable when we don't have to diet or exercise intensely for months and months at a time.
Find out more about this and other issues at www. dorkingfitnessfreebook.com
Here I lay it all out for you and give you a way to "interval train" to achieve weight loss and fat loss in as little as seven days.
Jason Geldenhuys
