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Cardio workouts have gotten a bad rap recently. I have to admit, I am as guilty as the next fat loss guru when it comes to standard cardio bashing. Don’t get me wrong, my reasons for preferring shorter, more intense and fully dynamic fat loss workouts are quite validated, but standard cardio training does still have it’s place.

With all of the anti-cardio workout messages constantly being spewed out by so many fat loss experts, I am afraid the general public may start to get the wrong message. It’s not that traditional, longer and slower paced aka steady state cardio cardio workouts are ineffective, but rather that they are highly inefficient and potentially less effective overall.

To clarify, doing a 60-minute jog on the treadmill six days per week is quite a time commitment for the average person. Assuming a shorter and more intense workout could burn the same amount of calories overall thanks to a post-workout boost in metabolism, a time crunched individual would benefit greatly from performing six 15-minute weekly workouts, instead.The second option is what I preach and there are numerous benefits that accompany the huge time-savings. But this approach is not without downsides and a given individual’s workout plan does not have to be one form of cardio workout or the other.

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