Strength & conditioning training in every day group exercise classes? Why not!

Check out the video above. Hopefully it's made you smile, but whilst amusing we also hope you'll be relieved to know that it's a way off what's really effective for fat loss and conditioning.

You see the trouble with aerobics is that it makes your body really really effective at hanging on to fat. Sure in the initial phases of taking on any exercise programme you'll probably see some results, but if you keep on doing the same aerobic type classes soon enough you'll hit a plateau and the results will stop. You probably know exactly what I'm talking about already, right?

So what does work? Well, first let's recap on the hierarchy of fat loss.

Number one is good nutrition. You can't out train a bad diet.

Number Two is Resistance and Metabolic Acceleration Training, because these two are what creates a huge metabolic disturbance and leaves you with an elevated metabolism for up to THIRTY EIGHT HOURS - WOOOHOOOO! 'Effect of an acute period of resistance exercise on excess post-exercise oxygen consumption: implications for body mass management'. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2002 Mar;86(5):411-7. Epub 2002 Jan 29.
Schuenke MD, Mikat RP, McBride JM.

Number Three is High Intensity Anaerobic Intervals

Number Four is High Intensity Aerobic Training

And Number Five, yes you guessed it, is our jazzercise type Low Intensity Aerobic Training.

At the end of the day all 5 of these methods of fat loss are going to yiled some results, but if you're like most normal, busy people and don't have the time to spend hours and hours training each week then it's essetial that whatever training you do is geared around resistance training, metabolic acceleration training and high intensity anaerobic intervals. This will create in you an afterburn effect, so that the real results happen AFTER you've finished training.

A good analogy of this is building muscle. People don't build muscle in the gym, they build it AFTER training, as a result of their recovery. Fat loss is no different. The real progress, providing you're doing the right kind of training, happens when you're NOT in the gym, which fortunately is quite well suited to most people's lifestyles in today's hectic world.

So, ask yourself whether YOUR training programme, whether you be working out on your own, with a coach, or in group sessions, is really geared towards the hierarchy of fat loss and optimal results. And if it's not, then check out our timetable of classes which is included in every level of membership at Phoenix Pro Fitness