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Are You Still Burning Calories or Already Losing Fat? Study Shows: 5x15 Min HIIT Reduce Body Fat & Improve Fitness Twice as Effectively as 5x40min of Classic Cardio

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Image 1: The number of women striving to be strong & sexy is still too skinny. Despite the fact that the slogan "strong is the new sexy" has become increasingly popular, as of late, my personal experience tells me that women are particular resistant to suggestions, let alone well-meant advice to drop "classic cardio" training all-together. Against that background the data from a study that has been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness , as convincing as it may be, is probably no more than another drop in the bucket, but hey... if there is only one women who's mental bucket is already chock-full it may be the one drop that will eventually make it spill over ;-) "But didn't they lose more weight with classic cardio!" What happens if you take 60 female overweight (BMI>25kg/m² and body fat >30%) university students and tell them they got to lose weight? Well, I guess, 45 will run to the ...

Exercise Supplementation: Carbs + Protein For High Intensity Endurance Athletes

What bodybuilder already knew, has now been confirmed by a group of scientists from the University of Texas ( Ferguson-Stegall, 2010 ): Carbs alone won't do the trick ! In their study Ferguson-Stegall and collegues investigated the effect of a low carbohydrate beverage (50% less total carbohydrate than a carbohydrate-only supplement) with added protein on cycling endurance performance in 15 trained athletes: [The subjects cycled] on 2 separate occasions  at intensities alternating between 45 and 70% VO2max for 3 hours, after which the workload increased to approximately 74-85% VO2max until exhaustion. Supplements (275 mL) were provided every 20 minutes during exercise, and these consisted of a 3% carbohydrate/1.2% protein supplement (MCP) and a 6% carbohydrate supplement (CHO) .[...] for subjects cycling at or below ventilatory threshold (VT) time to exhaustion (TTE) in MCP was significantly greater than for CHO (45.64 +/- 7.38 vs. 35.47 +/- 5.94 minutes, respectively,...
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