Posted on 04/15/2007 7:54:59 PM PDT by Coleus
"Cardio kills," says Jim Karas in his new book, "The Cardio-Free Diet."
"Cardiovascular exercise kills a weight-loss plan, your internal organs, your immune system, your time and your motivation. If your true goal is to lose weight, interval strength training is the only way to go," says Karas, an ABC News correspondent, celebrity trainer and fitness expert. When he first tried to lose weight as a 21-year-old, Karas found that he would work up an enormous appetite after running several miles. So while his cardiovascular health improved he still wasn't losing weight.
He grew more interested in strength training and started exercising with weights. In a short period of time he noticed changes in his body's composition. Gradually, experimenting on himself, he started doing more strength exercise and less cardio — and his weight went down. His experiment resulted in a cardio-free exercise program that includes two routines with 10 exercises. Every two weeks, after beginning with Phase 1, you add two exercises as you progress to the next phase, ultimately getting to Phase 4.
Most of the exercises require you to use many muscles at the same time, increasing the number of calories burned and maximizing the creation of new muscle tissue. According to Karas, with his program you still get all three elements — strength training, cardio and flexibility. He says people who engage in his program see an increase in their heart rate. "It's really a three-for-one solution, when you look at exercise," says Karas.
Exercise physiologist Richard Weil is not convinced. "I'm flabbergasted, I'm astonished at what I'm reading. I genuinely believe he's deluding people and he's leading them to believe information that is really not factual. I believe that the book is dangerous." Weil, director of the weight-loss program at the New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, says it's untrue to suggest that aerobic exercise is not effective or helpful. 1. 2. 3. NEXT»
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Here here.
Sit on your a$$ and lift weights? Yeah, okay...
Neat posting trick.
Is he selling a book...Where is the program.
Cardio is still the best thing for you if you want to live longer.
Sounds a lot like 5BX, what the Canadian military used for a long time.
trick? what are you talking about?
Sex with a fat chick? That would satisfy both requirements.
When are people going to figure out that one diet or exercise regimen doesn’t work for everybody? If running works for you, great. If lifting works better for you, fantastic. Food and exercise is not a one-size-fits-all kind of deal.
“When he first tried to lose weight as a 21-year-old, Karas found that he would work up an enormous appetite after running several miles”
ok..so maybe we shouldn’t run for “several miles”.
Maybe we should run 1, 2, or 3.
But why give it up entirely?
grain of salt here.
I changed my body composition/shape mainly using weight-machines with four 20-minute-segments of cardio - stairclimber per week. My body changed dramatically in six months. I could see differences in one month. But it took a lot of time/dedication.
When my work schedule increased and was not able to exercise 4x per week, I found I gained weight evenly. Now I’m ready to hit it again. Maybe not 4x per week, but at least 2-3.
I also stuck with a moderate protein, fat, carb diet, with good carbs.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"In Body Rx Connelly advises: stay off the treadmill. Again, research bears him out -- aerobic activity is a very inefficient method of burning extra calories. Additionally, aerobic activity often sacrifices as much lean tissue as fat, so your metabolic rate drops as you lose a combination of both fat and muscle. Weight training, of course, builds lean muscle, which increases both caloric requirements and the metabolism"
Unfortunately it’s little known to married women.
The trick was doing the >2>3 and getting it to link.
Hadn’t seen anyone do that before. Slick ....
Lots of people who have normal physiology do very well with strength training as a strategy to gain muscle, burn fat and improve body composition. It's not a guaranteed successful track if you have other issues standing in the way.
Yes, maybe for men, but sex has a way of really wrecking a girls figure in 9 quick months.
Actually, a lot of personal trainers are talking about this. Don’t give up the cardio necessarily - but it seems that regular resistance training really helps a person who is dieting maintain muscle mass - and may make the body burn calories longer than traditional cardio work.
Pretty neat stuff.
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