What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.com.
It's a bodyweight Wednesday, and guess what?
It really doesn't even matter, at least not for the consideration of what we're choosing
here for the best exercise to help you to burn the most calories and fat as fast as
possible.
We could look at weighted options, we can look within the weight room and see if we've
got any options there, but we don't.
The best thing we could possibly do is move our asses as fast as we possibly can and to
do that, that is with sprinting.
This is a high effort, high intensity – this is an overloaded version of what would typically
be a basic cardiovascular exercise.
So we can jog, we can walk, but there's no overload there.
You know how important I say overload is to everything we do.
This is overload.
Now, if we look at calorically, what this equates to, is calorically, we could jog.
A lot of us do jog and we spend a lot of time doing that, but is it the best thing we can
do if we're trying to burn as much calories and fat as possible?
No because we can jog and if we jog, again, the weight that we are will influence how
many calories we burn.
If we're heavier we're going to burn more calories in the same period of time as we
would if we were lighter.
But in general, a 160lb guy is going to burn about 180 calories every 15 minutes jogging.
A 200lb guy is going to burn about 220 calories every 15 minutes of jogging.
Okay, not bad.
But when we sprint, if you were to sprint for 3 minutes straight – which none of us
are because we're probably going to pass out before then – but it illustrates the level
of high intensity effort.
We could honestly do it for 30 seconds – sometimes 60 seconds – but in 3 minutes, compared
to 15 these guys are going to burn anywhere from 275-320 calories.
That's every 3 minutes.
You multiply that by 5 and you've got a hell of a lot more calories being burned.
But of course, no one is going to be sprinting for that long of a period of time.
So what do we do?
Well, our options are to break it up with rest intervals.
I talked about high intensity interval training before.
That's a given, but what am I doing specifically?
Well, I actually like to sprint twice a week.
I don’t do it for a hell of a lot of time.
As a matter of fact I was so damn late in doing it and getting it done that I had to
go outside, it was nearly dark anyway, and I decided I'd bring the camera about and show
you wat I do.
So, I go out, and I like to try to find a little bit of an incline that I can run up.
If I run up I'm going to get a little bit more work for my posterior chain – which
obviously can always benefit from that anyway – but there's bigger muscles on our backside
here.
They're going to burn more calories a little bit more quickly.
So I'm going to utilize the uphill slope to my advantage to help me to get more out of
this workout, especially when I'm short on time.
So what I do is I set it up for about a 40 yard – 30 or 40 yard run – and all I'm
going to do is sprint up, and I'm going to either walk down, or do something I call a
sprint-walk-jog, which I'll show you in a little bit, where I walk half the way and
then I jog half the way back to the starting point, in which case I turn right back around
and I sprint up the hill again.
Either way, the key here is the sprinting.
The key here is minimizing the rest intervals here so when I get back to the starting line
I'm not hanging around forever.
I'm getting right back at it.
I might only do this whole cycle – I'll start the clock at 10 minutes and I'll just
keep running up and down that hill.
Now, in terms of the style of running I'll either try to be at about 90% of my max effort,
where I'm still holding onto a little bit of my form if I can – trying to drive my
arms in this plane, rather than this plane here – try to get good knee drive.
That actually helps me to get my form work in while I'm also still burning a lot of calories.
Then I might go and sacrifice it all and I might say "I'm going to just run as hard as
I can possibly freaking run, and I'm going to push with as much force as I can into the
ground."
That's a little bit different focus.
That's where I allow myself to get a little bit more lax with my quality of my run and
instead just focus on pushing as hard as I possibly can to develop some strength.
Look, the posterior chain deserves the overload.
It needs as much overload as you can possibly give it.
We're undertrained in those areas.
By running, I'm doing that, but at the same time I'm also giving myself a chance to burn
a lot of calories, and therefore burn fat.
If you're not sprinting you've got to start.
I don’t care if you don’t do all that well in the beginning.
Do it at your own pace.
The key is just doing your slow, steady state cardio, or your little, slow jogs on the treadmill
are not providing the overload the same way as if you went into the weight room and just
did enough bench presses that you can handle what you're comfortable with.
There's no way you're going to build a bigger chest unless you overload with those weights.
Overloading with your body in the form of sprinting is the absolute best thing you can
do.
All right, guys.
I hope you've found this video helpful.
In the meantime, if you're looking for more bodyweight options we have an entire program
that pushes your body to the limit with nothing but your own bodyweight, no equipment at all.
It's called ATHLEAN0 and that's over at ATHLEANX.com.
It comes with a meal plan, by the way.
We know meal plans are critical to helping to shed the fat as well.
It comes with a complete meal plan, day by day, meal by meal to help you to do just that
as well.
All right, guys.
That's over at ATHLEANX.com.
In the meantime I'll be back here again with another video in just a couple days.
I'll see you later.