Like Christmas, Easter time usually brings banter about whether or not I am going to touch certain food and drink.
Like Christmas I let myself have a treat, control it, enjoy it, don't feel in the slightest bit guilty, then make sure I burn it off with a beasting!
It is also untrue that I got my family boiled eggs for Easter!
This Easter's beasting came in the form of a 10k cross country race. As you know I'm not a big fan of long cardio for fat loss, but I am having to do such events in preparation for Tough Guy!
Yet again though this weekend proved a few points about fat loss and conditioning.
1) I completed the course in around 43.30 - not an awesome time by any stretch but considering it was mainly grass, had some nasty hills and I only run once per week to protect my joints (and muscle mass) I was fairly happy - this keeps me on target for a circa 40 min road 10k by summer, but I know I can get more out of my legs.
The day you are satisfied with your training and your performances is the day you embark on a slippery slope - remember that!
2) I, my girlfriend and my clients who also took part beat many of the club runners who do nothing but run.
We do a combination of metabolic weight training and intense interval conditioning with one 'aerobic' run per week (if that) to put some miles in the legs and get used to the distance.
This is the video for my personal training studio showing some of the guys and girls who ran today. It'll give you some ideas as to the kinds of training you should be focussing on to lose fat whether you are a beginner or more advanced trainee.
This is how the FLAB was created - by testing and developing programs which work for real people who don't have hours and hours for training and who can't bear the thought of cardio work!
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This goes to show that strength work does more for improving endurance running and pain tolerance than pavement pounding.
I spoke to a few people who ran good times but 'couldn't break the XXXX barrier'. All they do is run and run and run to improve it - this WILL NOT work!
We've all been chopping minutes off our run times in the past 6 weeks with no signs of slowing down by focussing more on strength work than just TRYING to run faster.
A metabolic weights workout might look something like this:
5 rounds as fast as possible of...
20 kettlebell swings
10 jump squats
10 jumping pull ups
5 renegade push up-row
250m row on Concept 2
Try this and it will smoke you taking less than 30 minutes.
3) If you are worried what one creme egg or one chocolate bar over the Easter weekend will do to your waist line, the rest of your year is seriously uncontrolled and lacks focus!
You can't undo 51 good weeks with two bad 3 day spells at Easter and Christmas.
It's when you let your poor control of your taste buds take over on a weekly basis that you're in trouble!
4) I am approaching the end of my temper with so-called international experts who send emails out saying you can get an awesome workout done in 5 minutes.
Don't be so stupid - if you believe this you are having your intelligence insulted.
Short workouts are VERY effective when done properly but '5 minute workouts to burn fat' - give me break!
That will get you another small hole on your credit card but not a lot else.
If you truly want change, you need to be prepared to FIND 20-45 mins x 4-5 per week.
Less can certainly be more but don't let the marketing hype get to the 'quick fix node' in your brain!
Jon
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