Hi, I am feeling unfit, soft and pudgy. I still fit into my clothes although some are tight. My tummy is soft and squidgy where once it was firm and hard. My once sculpted biceps and triceps are now slightly flaccid. I have turned 50 and have three teenage children. I feel now that I look 50 and I don't like that!
I have been working long hours for the past 18 months and have not given my body the attention I once did. Summer's coming so I really need to dust down my Turbulence Training bible and slim down and shape up.
I stumbled across Turbulence Training a few years ago when I was in my mid 40's. Up till then I was able to keep in shape by a combination of running, walking and weight training at home. I noticed as I got older it became harder to maintain my weight and muscle tone, and my exercise sessions were becoming longer and longer. I was getting to the stage where I was sick of exercising.
My partner took a posting to Solomon Islands and was over there for four lots of four months. At the beginning of the last four month stint I started Craig Ballantyne's Turbulence Training program. When my partner came home I was firmer and slimmer than I had been for at least 10 years! I couldn't believe what I had achieved in only four months! AND I had only exercised three days a week for 45 minutes. Compare that to exercising seven days per week for over an hour at a time. For me interval training beat hours of cardio hands down.
This program is too good to keep to myself. It's fast and it works! So girls before summer entices us to the beach join me in a program that will ensure we receive our share of stares and wolf-whistles.
For your info check out this article by Craig Ballantyne.
The 80-20 Fat Loss Rule
By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com/
What is Turbulence Training?
Turbulence training is my method of doing strength training
and interval training in one workout. So that you get in and out of the gym whether it's your home gym or whether it's a commercial gym. You get your workout done in 45 minutes.
We start with a 5-minute bodyweight warm up and then we do strength training for 20 minutes, whether it's bodyweight training or dumbbells. Sometimes we use barbells but most people that I work with train at home so we just use dumbbells and bodyweight exercises - no fancy equipment needed.
Then we finish with 20 minutes of interval training. We are using the most efficient and effective training methods. The stuff that gets you the most results in the least amount of time. So we are not doing long, slow cardio sessions and we're not doing 5 or 6 day per week bodybuilding training programs.
It's like the old business principle - 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts - so why do endless amounts of cardio and redundant strength training exercises?
Do only what you need to do and then get out of the gym.
Don't live in the gym,
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Turbulence Training
About the Author
Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit www.TurbulenceTraining.com/
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Julie
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