If losing fat is a struggle to you, you're absolutely not alone. However, even with all the millions of people trying to lose weight by doing steady state cardio, did you know that all these people would have better results doing this a different way?

Ok, let's take a step back for a second. It's not really the "wrong" way, but it's not the most efficient way either. The fact is that simply doing steady state cardio is not the most effective way to lose fat! You'll definitely burn calories, but they won't be the type of calories you want to burn.

If you want to lose fat and become more muscular, you really have to incorporate some form of high intensity training into your workout. It's well known that in addition to helping you burn fast faster, this type of training also improves cardiovascular health more quickly.

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Let's look at this a little closer. When you're running on a treadmill your body is doing the same motion over and over again. Over time your muscles will become used to this movemnet, and your body will adapt to burn less calories. The results over time will diminish because without challenging your body it will acclimate. As well, you're also putting a lot of strain on your joints by doing these repeated motions. You probably won't get hurt but it's definitely not the best way of doing things.

Cardio also leads to mindlessness and boredom in your workouts. If you think that just squeaking by with a 30 minute jog around the block will help, you're not trying hard enough. If you want the best results you're really going to have to challenge your body.

Lets take a look at high intensity weight traning as a way to cut to the chase. You really only have to have a few workouts a week, and the workout length is shorter for each session. Weightlifting to maximum exertion and muscle failure really gives you a workout. Your body has to exert itselft even more to repair the microtears in the muscle, as well as prepare your cardiovascular system for your next workout. Overall this leads to a lot more calories burned total.

If you're stuck in a rut and you're not seeing any changes in your body after weeks and months of boring cardio, then I strongly suggest that you look into a training program that will implement these high intensity routines.