Hey, Lindsay here…and a few of you have called me a liar lately (ok, maybe not to my face…and it really wasn’t all of you!).

We’re into Week 4 of our sold out 6-Week Spring Vacation Transformation Boot Camp and as part of the program, I created a 6-Week detailed plan for each boot camper including a specific workout schedule, meal plans, and recipes. But I didn’t expect to get emails from a few sceptics. I don’t blame them…I know they trust me as their trainer, but when it comes to fitness and weig.ht loss, we’ve been brainwashed to believe things that really are a crock of, well, you know what.

Here’s the deal – in addition to the Boot Camp workouts, I’ve given each boot camper an additional 2 days of cardio workouts to do on their own to maximize their results, plus two rest days. Sounds great, right?

The catch is that these cardio workouts take only about 15 minutes total. Yes, you heard me correctly. Only 15 minutes of cardio, 2 days a week. No long cardio sessions of treadmill, elliptical, or “gym classes.” But it seems that there were still those who didn’t believe me when I told them that they need to give up their long, boring cardio (unless they were training for a marathon, of course). But the deal is this – long, boring cardio is NOT EFFECTIVE FOR F-A-T BURN!!!

I was stoked (yes, I am from the west coast…so I use the word “stoked”) when I saw this article come through on my email from a scientific journal that I subscribe to – “Science Daily.” There is once again more research showing that shorter, more intense cardio – aka HIIT workouts (High-Intensity Interval Training) – is one of the most effective form of fat loss and is more realistic for conditioning you for your day-to-day activities. You need to get up that flight of stairs…not run a marathon, right?

So for those of you who didn’t believe me…just take it from these scientists who devote their life to researching this stuff. And if your #1 Goal is F-A-T loss – you might want to take note, and give up your long cardio and incorporate resistance exercise along with shorter, more intense cardio workouts. Hey…and it saves you a ton of time too!

Here’s the article from Science Daily:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311123639.htm

And here is a HIIT workout you can do on your own. Do it at your own pace – everyone’s 100% effort is different, so do what is challenging for YOU.
http://tinyurl.com/Don-t-Slack

Always looking out for you,
Lindsay

P.S. Those aren’t my “underpants”…the picture was just too good and reminded me of what we said as kids: “liar, liar, pants on fire!”