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Cardio exercise is such a strange thing. In theory, it should work so perfectly well for all men and women, but as anyone who has tried it knows, the practicality of it just doesn’t add up.

There’s a lot of people in the gym who do cardio for 10 or more hours and don’t fet the expected results, and there’s also people who get great results with the same, or even less, effort. A recent research in the United Kingdom goes inside this paradox and studied 35 overweight men and women, who weren’t previously exercising.

The subjects exercised for 12 weeks, 5 times per week. That’s a lot of exercise and it helped the subjects lose an average of 8.2 pounds, but it worked better in young men, who need the help the least!

Back to the study, the variance in fat loss between individuals was huge. Check this out…The best subject lost a staggering 32.3 pounds in 12 weeks, while the worst subject actually GAINED 3.74 pounds.

The scientists analized the results and classified the subjects in two groups. They called the first group the “compensators” and the second one the “Non-compensators”. In the first group there were people who were hungrier after the cardio training. They were eating more after the exercise, therefore, they were consuming more calories and they weight loss was poor. They consumed an extra 268 calories per day.

If your appetite increase when you do slow cardio, then it will ruin your cardio training. You will not achieve the same results as other people. Then, maybe is time to change your cardio program and find the right one to your needs. You have to check your appetite and calorie intake to see if you are “compensating” for your efforts. And if it’s happening, it’s better for you to use a program of high-intensity resistance and interval training (i.e. Turbulence Training) for your weight loss efforts.

The research of a professor in Australia (Professor Steve Boucher) has show that interval training increases hormones called catecholamines. If that hormone increases, causes fat-burning benefits like reducing appetite, among others.

The most of people will rarely be in the very small group of people who lose 33 pounds after 12 weeks of cardio. To be realist, there isn’t a lot of people who can achieve to loss 8 pounds in that lapse of time with aerobic exercise.

What you have to do is check your appetite, and consider giving high-intensity exercise a go for your next workout program. Beat the curse of cardio with high-intensity Turbulence Training.

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