fancy fat loss kit?

Keeping it simple in all that’s fat loss

This morning whilst doing my own training I noticed a trend that seems to be RED HOT in the fitness world at the moment.

Using modern, fancy equipment to train with or ‘on’.
Here are a few examples.

Bosu Balls, vibration plates, flexibars, bodyblades speed agility and quickness ladders, small hurdles, and even kettlebells.

It might come as a surprise to some of you, but I’m actually trained in all of these apart from the vibration plate- hey but I have squatted on my tumble dryer- that’s functional right?

I’m trained and qualified as a Russian Kettlebell Instructor, Bosu Master Trainer, an S.A.Q coach and attended 2 fliexibar certifications.

But after spending almost 10 years studying FAT LOSS, I’ve came to this conclusion- we don’t NEED any of these, in fact, some of them are pointless- in my humble opinion. I’ll give kettlebells a wider birth due to the fact they're just plain heavy and have some uses awesome exercise such as the ‘swing’ exercise (the best butt exercise out there), but even that can be done with a dumbbell for those of us who are on a limited budget.

Yep- that’s it I said it. A DUMBELL.

ALL you need for a GREAT fat loss program is a set of dumbbells, preferably adjustable. (your own bodyweight is fantastic too)

You see, the whole point of ANY fat loss program should be to produce what we call metabolic disturbance or EPOC.

Basically, EPOC or excess post exercise oxygen consumption is the period of time it takes your bodies’ metabolic rate to return to normal after exercise. This is several minutes for low intensity exercise and several hours for higher intensity exercise.

So therefore it makes sense to create as much EPOC as possible right? To burn calories for as long as possible AFTER we work out right?

Well guess what the best type of training is to invoke that response?

YEP- Simple, basic, been around since the dark ages- RESISTANCE TRAINING.
A few weeks ago we spoke about PROGRESSING every session- guess what the best way to progress is? Increasing the RESISTANCE you use.

Sure, we can increase reps, sets, time under tension and decrease rest periods but the first progression tool should be weight/resistance

So if you really think standing on a half rounded ball and squatting on one leg with no weight is better for fat loss or shaking a bar so it vibrates and squatting instead of deep squatting with some heavy weights gets you lean. You might even think that taking really small steps through ‘ladders’ rather than sprinting uphill or just downright sprinting will create that metabolic reaction then keep on ‘rocking’ but don’t expect a lot of fat loss!

So don’t be ‘dumb’ (see what I did there), get out the dumbbells add some weight, work with intensity and you won’t be ‘weighting’ (wow!) too long to get lean!