By Frank Sherrill
The answer is any time! The most important thing is that you just do
it. Continuous cardiovascular exercise, such as walking, jogging, stair
climbing, the rowing exercise with your Bully Xtreme, the circulation
exercise #1 or cycling, sustained for at least 30 minutes, will burn
body fat no matter when you do it.
However, if you want to get the maximum benefits possible from every
minute you invest in your workouts, then you should consider getting up
early and doing cardio before you eat your first meal - even if
you're not a "morning person."
Why Morning People Are Fat Burning Furnaces
Early morning aerobic exercise on an empty stomach has three major
advantages over exercising later in the day: Early in the morning
before you eat, your levels of muscle and liver glycogen (stored
carbohydrate) are low.
If you eat dinner at 7 p.m. and you eat breakfast at 7 a.m., that's
12 hours without food. During this 12-hour overnight fast, your levels
of glycogen slowly decline to provide glucose for various bodily
functions that go on even while you sleep.
As a result, you wake up in the morning with depleted glycogen and
lower blood sugar - the optimum environment for burning fat instead of
carbohydrate.
How much more fat you'll burn is uncertain, but some studies have
suggested that up to 300% more fat is burned when cardio is done in a
fasted, glycogen-depleted state.
So how exactly does this work? It's quite simple, really.
Carbohydrate (glycogen) is your body's primary and preferred energy
source. When your primary fuel source is in short supply, this forces
your body to tap into its secondary or reserve energy source; body fat.
If you do cardio immediately after eating a meal, you'll still burn
fat, but you'll burn less of it because you'll be burning off the
carbohydrates you ate first. You always burn a combination of fat and
carbohydrate for fuel, but depending on when you exercise, you can burn
a greater proportion of fat relative to carbohydrate.
2nd Best Time
For Fat Burning
If doing cardio first thing in the morning is not an option for you,
then the second best time to do it would be immediately after Bully
Xtreme training. Bully Xtreme training is anaerobic
(carbohydrate-burning) by nature, and therefore depletes muscle
glycogen.
That's why a post Bully Xtreme training cardio session has a similar
effect as morning cardio on an empty stomach. The second benefit
you'll get from early morning cardio sessions is what I call the
"afterburn" effect.
How To Burn Fat
All Day Long
When you do a cardio session in the morning, you not only burn fat
during the session, but you also continue to burn fat at an accelerated
rate after the workout. Why?
Because an intense session of cardiovascular exercise can keep your
metabolism elevated for hours after the session is over. If you do
cardio at night, you will still burn fat during the session, so you
definitely benefit from it.
Worst Time
To Burn Fat
However, nighttime cardio fails to take advantage of the
"afterburn" effect because your metabolism drops like a ton of
bricks as soon as you go to sleep. While you sleep, your metabolic rate
is slower than any other time of the day.
Burning more fat isn't the only reason you should do your cardio
early. The third benefit of morning workouts is the "rush" and
feeling of accomplishment that stays with you all day long after an
invigorating workout.
How To Enjoy Cardio
Exercise can become a pleasant and enjoyable experience, but the more
difficult or challenging it is for you, the more important it is to get
it out of the way early.
When you put off any task you consider unpleasant, it hangs over you
all day long, leaving you with a feeling of guilt, stress and
incompleteness (not to mention that you are more likely to "blow
off" an evening workout if you are tired from a long day at work or
if your pals try to persuade you to join them at the pub for happy
hour.)
You might find it hard to wake up early in the morning and get
motivated to workout. But think back for a moment to a time in your
life when you tackled a difficult task and you finished it.
Didn't you feel great afterwards? Completing any task, especially a
physically challenging one, gives you a "buzz." When the task is
exercise, the buzz is physiological and psychological.
Physiologically, exercise releases endorphins in your body. Endorphins
are opiate-like hormones hundreds of times more powerful than the
strongest
morphine.
A Natural High
Endorphins create a natural "high" that makes you feel positively
euphoric! Endorphins reduce stress, improve your mood, increase
circulation and relieve pain.
The "high" is partly psychological too. Getting up early and
successfully achieving a small goal kick starts your day and gives you
feelings of completion, satisfaction and accomplishment.
For the rest of the day you feel happy and you feel less stress knowing
that the most difficult part of the day is behind you.
But, I Hate Getting Up Early!
So, you say you're not a morning person? Take heart; neither am I. I
can sleep in like you wouldn't believe! But I get up anyway because I
know the effort is worth the results.
I suggest you get up in the morning, keep your Bully Xtreme by your
bedside and upon awaking do the circulation exercise #1 for 20 to 30
repetitions.
WHY?
Because during sleep your breathing is shallow. Your metabolism and
circulation have slowed down. By doing the circulation exercise first
thing in the morning... every morning it starts you and your day
energized! Try this for 30 days and write me with your results
When I have a bodybuilding goal that I am clearly focused on, such as
reaching 4% or 5% body fat for a competition, I'm on my Stairmaster
for 45 minutes every morning at the crack of dawn without fail.
Sure it's a challenge at first, but you know what? After a few short
weeks, It's no longer a chore and I'm "in the groove" - and you
will be too. Just try it.
Make a commitment to yourself to do it for just 21 days. Once those 21
days have gone by, you'll already be leaner and you'll be on your
way to making morning workouts a habit that's as natural as brushing
your teeth or taking a shower.
Once you start getting used to feeling that buzz, you'll become
"positively addicted" to it. The more you do it, the more you'll
want to do it.
Before you know it, early morning cardio will your new habit; you'll
be leaner, your metabolism will be faster and you'll feel fantastic
all day long!
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Frank Sherrill, is a former U.S. Army Ranger and Martial Arts expert.
After surviving a horrific weight training accident, he spent years
researching and finally discovering an exercise program and home gym
that was as effective as free weights but, without all the RISK.
To learn more about the Bullworker and the Bully Xtreme go to
http://www.BullyXtreme.net
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