If you want your sexiest, most attractive body, you can either starve yourself and beat yourself up doing an “extreme” fitness program…
… or you can use my new fitness video coming out this month.
Did you know that extreme workouts like “P90X” and “Insanity” claim to be new and different, but they’re really just more aerobics? They claim to get you in shape, but they only wear you out and injure you.
Do exercises with names like “hit the floor,” “attack jabs” and “mummy kicks” sound like they’ll make you stronger? Would you even want to do “suicide drills”? Sounds more like torture to me. It sounds insane. Since when is it ever a good idea to go insane?
My new program, on the other hand, is a completely new category of exercise.
It’s the only workout system that focuses on retraining your metabolism.
You see, “aerobics” teaches your body to store fat for energy. I want to retrain your body to get rid of body fat and store energy in the muscle. It’s energy you can feel, and it’s on demand. No other way of exercising does that for you.
And now, with my new program, the results come much faster and easier than ever.
On top of that, it’s fun to do while you:
- Build both strength and capacity in your heart and lungs.
- Avoid heart attacks and cardiovascular disease.
- Develop a powerful and disease-resistant immune system.
- Dramatically boost your energy levels.
- Melt fat like never before.
It’s exciting to be able to help so many of you get into the naturally lean and strong bodies you were built to have. Because unfortunately, you were born into a bit of a dilemma…
We’re Not Made For The
Modern World
Today, we have succeeded in completely removing ourselves from our native world. What’s worse is our own powerful ability to adapt – our natural adaptive response to our surroundings – has got us into big trouble because we’re no longer faced with the same physical and metabolic challenges.
You see, we are still perfectly adapted for a life and death struggle between predator and prey. Yet we no longer have to hunt for our food, we grow it. And we no longer have to chase our food, or fight off predators, so we’ve become more sedentary.
We’ve traded bursts of intense exertion for constant “busyness” that causes constant stress.
It’s created the biggest epidemic the world has ever known.
Two out of three Americans are now overweight. Diabetes is ten times more likely than it was just 30 years ago. Heart disease kills over 600,000 each year in the US alone.
And the World Health Organization (WHO) has recently announced that for the first time in history, these non-communicable diseases surpassed all other causes of death worldwide.
These new predators may attack with sudden, deadly ferocity. Stroke victims rarely see it coming. In half of heart attack deaths, the first symptom appears with the beginning of the attack that kills.
Or, they may nip at your heels until their cumulative effect brings you down or you find yourself too fat, weak and tired to do anything about it. This slow degeneration has become the “status quo” of getting older in the modern world – chronic disease.
To make matters worse, without an understanding of the cause of problem, pundits have advocated the wrong solutions. Many only take you further from your natural challenges and aggravate the problem.
Modern “Exercise” Worse Than A Waste Of Time
This is why the “cardio” so popular today is worse than a waste of your time. It’s not natural to repeat the same movement for as long as possible. Cardiovascular endurance exercises like “aerobics” don’t correct for what you are lacking. They increase your stress even more by mimicking it. And they won’t defend your heart from the modern predator of heart disease, stroke and heart attack.
Yet for decades, you’ve heard that if you could just make yourself do enough “cardio,” it would protect your heart. If this is true, why do very “conditioned” endurance runners drop dead of heart attacks at the height of their running careers? Their rate of sudden cardiac death is 50 percent higher than that of other athletes.1
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It happened twice last month in Philadelphia. One was a 41-year old, and the other was a 21-year-old Penn student who collapsed at the finish line of the half-marathon.
Three more died in October. A 40-year-old man died right at the finish line of the Los Angeles half-marathon. A 27-year-old died seconds before the finish line of the Toronto marathon. And another man – a 35-year-old firefighter – collapsed and died during the Chicago marathon.
This happens when there is a sudden increase in cardiac demand that exceeds your heart’s capacity. Unfortunately, adding “cardio” to our busy days and pushing for greater endurance produces the opposite result of what we need in the modern world. Forced endurance exercise forces your heart and lungs to “downsize.”
Your heart and lungs become efficient, but have less capacity. “Aerobics” and endurance exercises like running force your heart to operate dangerously close to the maximum of that reduced capacity. Giving up your heart’s reserve capacity to adapt to unnatural bouts of prolonged durational exercise only increases your heart risk and shrinks your lungs as well.
A Whole New Category
The good news is that reversing this problem is easier than you might think. You don’t need to force yourself through grueling monotonous “cardio” at all.
You can build muscle mass, increase bone density, and improve your balance with physical challenges that are much shorter, but more intense – the same way our ancestors did.
Your body will be naturally strong and resilient. You’ll feel energized, motivated and ready to take on any challenge. Your muscles will be their intended size – no bigger or smaller. Your breath will be deep and focused.
The key is to build back the reserve capacity our modern world has taken away. You do this by incrementally challenging your heart and lungs, and then accelerating the challenge.
Choose any exercise that will make you stop and pant for breath. It could be as simple as going up and down the stairs, jumping rope, or performing traditional body weight exertion.
I design conditioning programs for my patients with this goal in mind. And it’s how I designed this new program. It has specific instructions and ready-made, fun workouts to get you fit and lean in a relatively short time.
You’ll be hearing a lot more about it in the next few weeks, but let me show you how using its principles can get you noticeable results by doing the opposite of what all the fitness “gurus” have been saying for years.
First, keep your total exertion time to no more than 12 minutes. Endurance exercises that last for an hour at a time or more mimic stress. In your native environment, this would signal your body that times are not good, and you have to conserve energy, store fat and slow your metabolism.
By keeping the challenge brief, you tell your body that the environment is healthy, and it’s OK to melt off the fat and build lean muscle.
Second, copy natural movement as much as possible. Forced, man-made exercises like training for endurance or individually training one muscle at a time with weights won’t rebuild your heart and lung capacity. They rob you of it.
And running on a treadmill is worse. It undoes your neuromuscular wiring because you’re not moving, it’s moving under you. It’s not natural. Instead, use body weight movements, sprints, or swimming to exert yourself. Even an elliptical machine is better than a treadmill. It more closely resembles sprinting or climbing.
Exercises that put your body through natural patterns of movement train your body from thought to action. This is essential if you want that new muscle to be capable of doing anything. When you call on your muscles in real life, they move against the resistance of your own body weight. They are the best way to build functional strength.
Body weight exertion is also much more effective in strengthening ligaments and tendons. Bottom line – nature didn’t build your muscles to lift weights or run for hours. To build strength that you can use, work against your own body weight.
Third, incrementally increase the intensity of the challenge. When you focus on how intensely you’re exerting yourself, and increase it bit by bit, you’re forcing your heart and lungs to adapt to what you’re asking of them. You’re using your body’s natural adaptive response.
Just like our bodies adapted – for the worse – to an environment without predators, you can change it back by mimicking the challenge our predators presented. Brief periods of exertion followed by rest. We’ve discovered that three sets of exertion is best.
As you get more fit, your capacity will increase. What felt like moderate intensity for your first set a little while ago will become easy fairly soon. So you have to be progressive with your intensity to keep building capacity and power in your heart and lungs.
Fourth, accelerate the changes. When you’ve regained your native capacity, it’s time to get more energy and retrain your metabolism so you melt fat off naturally.
You can accelerate in a few ways. You might rest and recover between exertion sets for 30 seconds less than you’re used to. Then a minute less. Eventually, you’ll need little recovery time at all as your heart and lungs regain their power.
And when you accelerate and get to your target level of intensity faster, you send your body the signal to store energy in your muscles for quick use. Especially in your heart. It’s energy you can feel – horsepower on demand.
Even if your current lifestyle is relatively inactive, my new program will help you dramatically reverse the effects of our modern environment. Just use these simple techniques and you’ll recreate the naturally fit and lean state of health you were designed for. No matter what today’s world throws at you.
It’s the best product I’ve ever created, and the best workout program ever made because it mimics the challenges of your natural environment.
In fact, I’m ready to take it global. We wanted to get the word out to as many people as possible as fast as possible, so I’ve been traveling back and forth to Los Angeles to create a TV show all about it.
It’s six DVDs with beginning to end workout routines and advice, plus two more DVDs full of bonus workouts. It also includes the interview I did with the producers.
To watch a sneak preview, go here.
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1. Anderson, O. “Heart attack risks are greater for athletes who compete in endurance sports” Peak Performance Online. www.pponline.co.uk. Retrieved Nov. 2, 2011