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AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE
AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE




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AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE




    Aerobics: The Big “Fat” Lie
                      As a personal trainer, I'm pretty well known for
                      going against the grain with my approach to
                      exercise and nutrition.

                      I’m also known as the personal trainer who
                      transforms his clients faster than anyone else
                      by teaching them to do the opposite of what
                      they have always been told to do!

                                                                – Kasper V. Christensen
                                                           http://www.fortiusfitness.com


                                  - The Basics -
•   Cardio is short for cardiovascular exercise: exercise which requires work from the
    heart and lungs continuously for a prolonged time.

•   Jogging, running, swimming, spinning and aerobic classes all involve
    cardiovascular exercise.

•   It is commonly thought that cardiovascular exercise – including aerobics – is a
    good way to burn calories and lose weight.




                    The problem with
            cardiovascular exercise is simple...

    ...It isn't actually a good way to lose body fat.
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The Evidence

Cardiovascular exercise isn't good at burning fat. The evidence is all around us.

Walk into any commercial gym in the world
and you will find endless rows of treadmills,
stair climbers, bikes and other cardio
machines. Commercial gyms and fitness
centres offer aerobic classes with exotic names
like “fatburner” or spinning classes where
dozens of people peddle their hearts out on
bikes.

Logically, all of these things are great for
anyone who wants to lose weight. Cardio
burns calories and aids fat loss, right?

All these classes and gyms are packed with
people desperately huffing and puffing away in
an effort to shed a few pounds. They can't all
be doing the wrong thing, surely?


Take A Look Around!

If only all these people would just open their eyes. They don’t even have to look far!
They just need to glance to their side at their fellow sufferers or straight in front them
- at the instructors of these classes themselves. Most of them are straight up
overweight or skinny fat. They step, spin and dance away for sometimes hours a day,
yet there’s no definition whatsoever to be found on their bodies. They never seem to
actually get any more ripped, toned, or defined!

If you ask people who ARE ripped and toned how they achieved their physique, they
will tell you that they do heavy lifting besides their classes and watch what they eat.

Why is it that people think they will get results, when the instructors themselves don’t?
They keep slaving away hours after hours hoping that some magic will happen, and
the logic will start to work.
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Insanity

                            I once read a pretty good definition of insanity.

                            “Insanity is doing the same thing over and
                            over again and expecting different results.”

                                                                         - Albert Einstein

                            I don't need to tell you that Einstein was a smart guy.

Why don’t people question their “logic” when it isn't producing results? If cardio is
such a great way to lose weight, why does it fail so many people?


Conventional Wisdom

It amazes me that most people just copy what everyone else is doing, even when it
obviously isn't working. Even personal trainers. What you hear about cardio seems to
add up on paper. In practice, cardio doesn't produce results and sometimes even
backfires, leaving people even more overweight. You have to wonder, if cardio isn't
working now for these people, when is it going to start working? The simple answer is:
never. More of the same won’t help. Often, it will make the problem even worse.

This e-book is about how bad aerobics or cardiovascular training is for fat loss, so
that’s what I’m going to use as an example to illustrate my point.

Most people know the following facts about cardio.

   •   Cardio burns calories during the actual session.
   •   Cardio burns calories after the session.
   •   Cardio raises the body’s metabolic rate.
   •   Cardio puts the body into a calorie deficit.
   •   And all in all, it supposedly burns body fat.

The underlying logic is appealing – you are told that aerobics and cardio burn calories,
and you have to burn calories to loose fat. And this is absolutely correct. You need a
calorie deficit to lose body fat. The problem is that the body is a lot smarter than
people give it credit for.

The body only thinks in terms of survival: your body doesn't give a damn about how
you want it to look! The body will burn as few calories as possible to make this
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happen. The more calories preserved, the better during times of famine. Remember,
our current standard of living is a recent development which evolution hasn't caught
up with. 10,000 years ago there were no supermarkets on every corner!

The muscles in our bodies are the powerhouses that primarily dictate our metabolism.

Our body is like a car.

Muscle tissue is the most metabolically expensive tissue we have in the body, so it
doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if we build muscle through strength training
we put a bigger engine in the body which will in turn require more fuel (calories) –
even at rest.

A bigger engine in a car burns more fuel. Similarly, the more muscle you have, the
more calories your body requires to function.

That’s the beauty of building muscle – it increases our metabolism which allows us to
eat more without gaining body fat! It also allows us to burn body fat more easily if we
have a negative calorie balance.

Now back to the logic that if you perform cardio you burn calories. No arguments
there. The BIG problem is that a lot more is going on. Cardio doesn't work in our
favour when fat loss is the objective.

Let's find out more...
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         The 5 Big Problems
        With Excessive Cardio




          It doesn't burn a lot of calories.


             It destroys muscle mass.


                 It causes injuries.


        Cardio burns carbohydrates, not fat!


No EPOC (Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption)


              Let's have a closer look.
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Problem #1
It Doesn't Burn A Lot Of Calories

Cardio equipment usually asks you to punch in your weight
before you start your workout. You start the workout and
continue until you have burned, for example, 300 calories
according to the machine. This will take around 40 min if you
burn 8 calories per minute. Now, have you ever wondered why
the machines want to know your weight? If you answered to
calculate how many calories you burn you are right. What you
most likely failed to consider is the main reason it needs your
weight is to calculate your basal metabolic rate.

Let’s say a person maintains his weight on about 2500 calories a day. That means they
need 105 calories an hour at rest. So the 300 calories burned are NOT calories burned
above your basal metabolic rate, they are calories burned INCLUDING your basal
metabolic rate. So for your time on the treadmill, you burned about 195 calories above
your baseline. If you did this every night for a week, you wouldn't burn enough
calories to equal the amount stored in one pound of fat.


Think about it...if we were so metabolically efficient as to burn 300 calories
at the rate the exercise equipment says you do, would we ever have
survived as a species?


The calories that would be burned hunting and gathering would have caused us to die
of starvation before we could ever have found anything to eat - at that rate of calorie
burn, we would barely have enough metabolic economy to survive a trip to the grocery
store.

Let us assume that you have the determination and time to do such a workout 7 days
a week. If we take the 300 calories burned and subtract the basal metabolic rate of
105 calories, we are left with 195 calories burned. There are 3,500 calories in a pound
of fat. If you kept a stable calorie intake, it would take you 18 days to burn off ONE
pound of fat with the extra activity. That’s nearly three weeks and a total of 12 hours
to burn ONE POUND OF FAT! This is assuming that no other variables are present.
Unfortunately there is a big variable that almost no-one accounts for...MUSCLE LOSS…
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Problem #2
It Destroys Muscle Mass

In order to exercise long enough to burn 300 calories you have to perform
cardiovascular activity at an intensity you can keep up for a prolonged time. Such
intensity does not place much demand on the muscles, that is why it can be carried
out for so long. The only thing the body senses is that its master demands traveling
great distances. Your body settles down for a long period of slow exertion and begins
doing something that many people don't expect...




When you perform this type of exercise your body can adapt by actually losing
muscle, making its engine smaller so it can preserve calories. Additional muscle is
perceived as dead weight when you are on the move for a long period of time -
muscle itself burns calories, so when the going gets tough your body responds by
getting rid of as much muscle mass as possible to keep you going – a survival
mechanism.

The body often responds in a way that seems counter-intuitive. Don’t drink any water?
Your body tries to retain water. Does weight training build muscle? No it doesn’t. What
actually occurs is a breakdown of muscle tissue and the body ADAPTS by building
muscle.

So, if you burn of calories doing aerobic training, that same body adapts to aerobic
exercise by slowing your metabolism and allowing your body to store more fat. This
means that as the body gets rid of muscle mass our metabolism is lowered and
requires fewer calories to run. Continuing with the example above, the person in
question now only requires 2200 calories to maintain their weight, as their muscle
mass has deteriorated thanks to intense cardio.

Most people get confused. Why isn’t cardio helping me lose weight? I run every day
and I only seem to maintain my weight. Some days, I seem to again weight! People,
knowing that cardio burns calories, blame themselves for not doing enough. They
increase the amount of training they do, making the problem even worse!
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A good car is one that is economic with fuel. As you do aerobic activity to burn fat,
your body becomes more economical. Like a good car, it needs less fuel to run – which
means you burn less fat the better you become at aerobic activity! This is hardly the
reason why people start doing it!

As you progress, eventually you'll need to do a huge amount of training just to keep
your weight stable and keep the accumulation of fat at bay. Furthermore, the stress
hormones that result from such overtraining also stimulate fat storage and weaken the
immune system which opens the door infections. Have you noticed how often long
distance athletes complain of colds and sore throats? Anyone who has attempted such
a program of weight loss can confirm...you will end up feeling washed out, moody, and
(worst of all) fatter. The truth is this: you cannot use physical activity to negate excess
caloric intake.

Does muscle mass really matter so much? Yes. The amount of lean muscle on your
body directly helps dictate the speed of metabolism and how much food you can “get
away with” eating.




                            Extensive cardio.
         Less muscle mass, slower metabolism, smaller “engine”.
                          Burns less calories.




         More lean muscle mass, faster metabolism, bigger “engine”.
                           Burns more calories.
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Think about what happens when you hit your 30’s. Remember when you were a
teenager and could eat everything in sight and not get fat? Somewhere in your 30's
things changed. Now it seems like just looking at food can make you fat. What
happened? The answer is simple: your muscle mass started to decline. This is natural.
As we age we lose muscle mass unless we give it a reason to stay. And as stated many
times now – with reduced muscle mass our metabolism goes down. So if you’re past
30, you’re accelerating the ageing process even more if you throw prolonged cardio
into the fray.



Your weight loss goals are like a carrot on a stick, and you are actually
destroying the very thing that burns calories round the clock – muscle
mass.

  Tip: You can find a beginners guide to weight training that will help you build
muscle mass at http://fortiusfitness.com/beginnerstraining. Suitable for both men and
women.


In weight training, as you get better, you add more weight or more reps and there
is literally no finish line. In aerobic training, it will take less work to run 5 miles as
you get fitter. So to continue to improve can you either go further (do more work
for the same amount of calories) or you can run faster. Going further kind of
defeats the purpose. Why run 40 minutes to burn the calories you once burned in
30 minutes? What kind of progression is that? It’s the law of diminishing returns!
And going faster isn't a solution either. Pretty soon you will run into another
problem. You can’t keep on increasing intensity - you have to slow down sooner
or later.

So, if we accept that muscle mass is a major factor in your fat burning engine -
and aerobic training makes that engine smaller (i.e. it reduces the amount of
muscle on your body) and more efficient at burning fat (remember more efficient
means it burns LESS) - how can you hope to lose weight when the very activity
that is supposed to burn fat makes you a smaller, more efficient fat burning (you
burn less of it!) machine?
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Problem #3
It Causes Injuries

Long slow aerobic training remains the biggest practical joke in fitness. If you do long,
slow cardio, it’s only a matter of time before you end up in a physiotherapist’s office
with all the others that do too much of the same thing. Whether it’s running or spin
classes, overuse injuries are far too common in the cardio world. I know of many
people who run to get fit yet they have back pain, knee injuries, shin splints, muscle
imbalances and other problems!




The reason for this is that the overwhelming majority of people move
poorly. When you take a body that moves poorly and move it this way for
an extended period of time - add in ground reaction forces - you make lots
of physical therapists happy.


Aerobics are an extremely damaging form of exercise, yet for some strange
reason, the ability to withstand pain has become associated with athleticism. The
epitome of withstanding punishment by way of aerobic overload is the marathon.
The story behind the Marathon Run is based on an ancient Greek legend of the
soldier, Pheldippides, who ran 26 miles to tell the emperor that their army was
victorious in battle over the Persians. Then he dropped dead. As much as I may
admire the physical and mental toughness it takes to finish a marathon, it has
little to do with one's health or appearance. It certainly won't enhance it. The
ability to tolerate punishment and damage is not a very accurate gauge of one's
health or strength. An activity such as running, besides being unnaturally
stressing to the knees, ankles, and lower back, will also increase free radical
damage due to the higher ingestion of oxygen. That means you age faster!
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Problem #4
Cardio burns carbohydrates, not fat!

When you’re active you burn calories. Many people believe that they burn fat when
they perform prolonged aerobic activity. This is where the theory of the fat burning
zone comes from.

We have three energy systems that the body uses.

  • Fat-based: Used in low intensity slow activities such as walking and the
    muscles preferred fuel at rest.

  • ATP-based: Used in high intensity activities such as sprinting for very short
    distances or lifting heavy things.

  • Our third energy system is carbohydrate or glycogen based: used in medium
    intensity activities such as running, cycling or jogging for long distances. It’s an
    inefficient and costly affair for the body to use this energy system.
    Carbohydrates or glycogen is stored in muscles and the liver, which can only hold
    500-600 grams of glycogen - fuel for about an hour of continuous work. When
    these stores are empty, you will start cannibalizing your own muscle tissue for
    fuel. You can also eat some simple sugars that hit the bloodstream fast
    delivering immediate energy. But why eat during exercise if fat loss is the
    objective?


                                    We just weren't designed to operate at
                                    medium intensity for long periods of time.
                                    We evolved to walk long distances,
                                    gathering food, tracking prey etc, sprinting
                                    occasionally to escape a predator or catch
                                    an animal to eat, climbing, throwing and
                                    lifting heavy things. We're meant to
                                    alternate periods of kicking back with short
                                    periods of kicking ass conserving as much
                                    energy as possible – not running to keep the
                                    heart rate up or reach some type of fat
                                    burning/aerobic zone.

                                    How many animals jog? None!
                                    They walk and sprint occasionally.
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Yes, the body burns some fat during aerobics, but most of the energy that’s burned is
carbohydrates. Have you ever noticed bike riders and marathon runners always have
their little energy gels with them? These are simple sugars that give instant energy to
the muscles. If the primary fuel was fat, they would have eaten oils instead. Now, if
you burn so much sugar during the activity, what do you think the body craves after
the workout? Yep, sugar. And lots of it. Meaning that you will easily eat the amount of
calories burned during the actual session...and probably more!
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Problem #4
No EPOC (Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption)

If you compared a 45-minute cardio session to a 45 minute resistance training session,
you'd find that you burn more calories minute-to-minute doing cardio than you do
lifting weights. This is why most people are under the assumption that cardio burns
more calories overall and is the most efficient approach to fat loss.

However, what many trainees don't take into consideration is EPOC, which describes
the calories you burn AFTER you train. Once again, the cardio “logic” begins to fail
when we look at things in more depth!

How many calories you burn during a training session is only a small part of a bigger
picture.

                      To get a real idea of what a training session is doing, you need
                      to take a look at the total number of calories you burn in
                      the 24-48 hours afterwards.

                      The common cardio “logic” doesn't take this into account. Most
                      people simply think of the gym as an isolated experience in the
                      day and ignore what happens after.

When you run, step, spin or other cardio activities you burn some calories, but as soon
as you stop doing these things, nothing more will happen. There’s no damage to the
muscles – that’s why you can do it every day. The time and calories required for the
body to repair the damage are minimal.

When you train with weights, you break muscle tissue down. Your body needs energy
(calories) to repair and build them up again. Compare this to steady-state cardio,
where there is little to no "spark" as far as metabolism is concerned and you can see
which is more effective in terms of overall fat loss.

So, in order to really burn body fat and not muscle the key is to think not just how
many calories we can burn during exercise, but about how many calories we can force
the body to burn round the clock.
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                    Spot The Difference!
            The principles described so far can be seen everywhere.

                     Take a look at the following two men:




         Marathon runner                                 Sprinter
     In my opinion he looks sick.                  Strong, lean, powerful
                                                    and healthy looking!


Have you ever noticed how strong, ripped and powerful sprint and power athletes
look? In comparison, long distance athletes appear thin, worn and older than they
                                  actually are.
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Everyone wants to look like a sprinter, and sprinters do almost ZERO continuous
aerobic work, yet they have less body-fat than long distance runners. “Logic” tells us
this shouldn't be the case. According to the common cardio logic they should be fat.


Think about this: few people want to look like a marathon runner, but the
common advice is that to look like a sprinter, you need to train the way a
marathon runner does. How weird is that?


We can even transfer this to the gym.

If we look around the gym, where do we find the lean, muscular or toned physiques?
In the weights room! NOT in the cardio section, spinning or aerobic classes.

Strength training is a lot like sprinting. Short burst of maximum intensity followed by
rest. Running on a treadmill or stepping away in a class, is directly proportional to a
long distance race.


Every year thousands of overweight people complete triathlons and
marathons. This alone proves that the nature of aerobic activity involved in
such a pursuit has a limited or zero effect on fat burning.
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               Case Study #1: Jamie Eason

                               Jamie Eason, seen on the left, has the kind of body
                               most women dream of.

                               Most people assume she must spend every waking
                               moment in the gym doing grueling cardio! Here's what
                               she has to say:

                                “I'm not a huge fan of cardio. I prefer to eat
                                clean. Most women overdo the cardio and avoid
                                weights for fear of getting too big. That is a huge
                                misconception! I tell women all the time that they
                                can do cardio and diet all day long but they're
                                never going to achieve the "tone" they're after.
                                Without incorporating weights, they will likely end
                                up just a smaller version of themselves.”

                               Some women, like Rachel Cosgrove, take Jamie's
                               advice to heart... (next page)




   Tip: Of course, diet also plays an integral part in weight loss. I have written a
complete nutrition guide which you can find on my website. This will help you gain
muscle and lose weight without ever feeling hungry!
http://fortiusfitness.com/nutritionmanual
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               Case Study #2: Jamie Eason
Rachel Cosgrove used to do over 20 hours of cardio
work a week.

“I worked my way up to doing over twenty hours
of endurance training a week. I also kept track of
every calorie I ate; making sure my nutrition was
right on track. I thought I'd be able to eat
whatever I wanted, but I couldn't. I had to watch
myself to keep from gaining any weight. I now
have first-hand experience that steady-state
aerobics is absolutely, completely, utterly
ineffective for fat loss. After working my way up to
twenty training hours a week, I can tell you that
long, steady-state endurance is not the answer for
a defined, lean physique and it's a waste of time if
your goal is fat loss. It's only the answer if your
goal is to complete an endurance event.”


                       Today, Rachel spends 5 hours a week weight and interval
                       training to maintain her “toned” look.

                       “I eliminated all steady-state endurance exercise. No
                       running, biking, swimming, or anything else in the
                       steady-state. In an eight-week period my body returned
                       to being strong, defined, and lean. I no longer looked like
                       a flabby endurance athlete, and I did it in a quarter of
                       the time, compared to the aerobic training.
                       Get off the treadmill, stop spinning your wheels, and
                       push yourself in the gym if you want to lose some serious
                       fat.”
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    Case Study #3: Me & My Girlfriend Joan




I got into the best condition of my life in 2006 where I placed 3 rd in a competition
against 21 other competitors. The only cardio I did was for the last 4 weeks where I
did intervals 3 times a week to prepare for a 500 meter row that was a part of the
competition. I did the same thing in 1999 when I reached a very similar condition. For
the competitions in-between I did a lot of various cardio but never reached the
condition I wanted. It was when I skipped the cardio that I was able to reach really
low body fat levels without losing muscle in the process.

I trained my girlfriend (pictured on the right) for the 2008 athletic fitness competition
which she won. She did the exact training as I did for my competition in 2007: the
conclusion is that my training works perfectly for woman as well. (See next page)

Today I maintain a condition close to the picture at left. I hit the weights hard 3 times
a week and some intervals or complexes 1-2 times a week.
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               Gyms & The Fat Loss Formula
                          Gyms need members to survive.

 It’s a lot easier and inexpensive to charge someone $30 per month and show them
 how to press 'quick start' on a cardio machine than it is to teach them how to train
with free weights while simultaneously improving their diets! Do you think they could
keep the low membership fee, if they should learn every member correct training and
                         nutrition habits? If they even know how!


So what works?

If you haven't figured it out by now, resistance training is FAR superior compared to
long duration aerobics or steady-state cardiovascular exercise for fat loss. It increases
your metabolism not only by rebuilding of damaged muscle tissue but also the
increase in muscle mass which raises your metabolism 24 hours a day. The more
muscle you build the more your metabolism goes up. The jury’s still out on how much
a pound of muscle actually boosts your metabolism, but the results can’t be argued
with! These are the keys to burn body fat and keep it off. As you have just leaned
cardio training decreases it.

Lifting weights is far more important to your long term fat loss success and
to reshaping your body.

If you’re female don't worry about becoming the next female version of The
Incredible Hulk. Muscle is a lot denser than fat. As you loose fat you become smaller
even when you build muscle. This will give the toned look the majority of woman
wants. Strength training increases cardiovascular fitness as well, but if you absolute
want to make sure that you’re covered in that department, all you have to do is throw
some hard intervals into your routine.

You've now almost finished reading this book – it’s my hope that you have learned
what not to do if fat loss is your goal. Some exercise is better than none, so of course
I do not recommend people stop their activity. I just want people to think! Question
their “logic”! Open their eyes and see what happens right in front of them!
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Aerobics & cardio training are grossly over-rated and over abused. Over rated for
health, over rated for performance and definitely over rated for fat loss. How sad it is
that aerobics will not do what everyone is expecting it to do? It is NOT healthy. It will
NOT increase your lifespan. It will NOT improve flexibility. It will NOT grow muscle. It
will NOT strengthen your heart any more than weight training. It will NOT improve
your appearance. And most of all, it will NOT help you lose fat. Aerobics are good for
one thing and one thing only: they make you better at doing aerobics.

Q. Can’t I just throw strength training upon our cardiovascular activity?

A. No, because we have to take overtraining into consideration. You have to be really
careful with your training economy. Strength training is hard for the body to recover
from. Throw a lot of cardio in to the mix, will just have a negative impact on your
results. And why bother. If 10 hours accomplish nothing, 2-3 hours won’t add
anything.

Q. I already lift weights but I cant quite seem to build any more lean muscle mass. I
feel like I'm stuck in a rut. What should I do?

A. This is a common complaint. I have a whole book dedicated to advanced training
techniques, designed to help you start making progress again, on my website. You
can find it at http://fortiusfitness.com/advancedtraining. Head over and have a look!



           The formula for fat loss success is pretty straightforward:




If you do these 2 things correctly and with discipline, these simple steps will prove
successful beyond your expectations and you'll blow away all of those poor souls
stomping away in the cardio area. The sooner that's realized, the sooner you'll be on
your way toward better progress. I know it's tough to accept. But changing a bad
habit is a lot smarter than defending it. In my e-books I presents the methods I have
found to be the most successful to rip fat of your body and build muscle in record
time. Save yourself time and learn the strategies to reach your goals – FAST!
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             Testimonials for FortiusFitness

Even clearer was the results when we looked ourselves in the mirror. The muscles
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                          Jeppe Saggau Lond og Morten Melander Petersen - 21 years

Before I started with Kasper I trained 6-7 times a week and got nowhere. Now I train
every other day and I can see significant difference. I lost a lot of kilos and began to
build muscle.

                                                             Ali Ahmad Amiri - 21 years

I had set myself a goal - In 8 weeks I would get my bodyfat down before I went on
vacation. I must say that it came. From 30 to 23%. Im so I’m happy. It just shows
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Basic things like the way we all believe we must work out to build muscle and lose fat
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About The Author

                        As a certified personal trainer and nutrition specialist,
                        Kasper V. Christensen has more than 20 years of
                        coaching experience and has trained over 10,000
                        clients from all walks of life.

                        Kasper V. Christensen is the founder of FortiusFitness which
                        offers online personal training and ebooks that share Kasper's
                        techniques and methods with anyone who wants to build a
                        strong, lean, toned or muscular physique - the natural way!

                        Once an insecure, 130 pound skinny young man, Kasper is
now a muscular 180 pound professional fitness coach, magazine model, gym owner
and seasoned fitness competitor; achieving top placings in 7 separate fitness
competitions without the aid of performance enhancing drugs of any kind. His success
story has made him a highly sought after personal trainer and today his training and
nutrition programs help others obtain mind blowing results in record time.

He currently resides in the wonderful city of Copenhagen, Denmark, with his beautiful
girlfriend Joan.


Connect!
If you'd like me to create a personalized nutrition and training plan for you, you can
email me at kasper@fortiusfitness.com

      You can also find FortiusFitness on Facebook!
      Visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fortius-Fitness/141598499194509 to
      show your support and help spread the word.
AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE


Disclaimer
The information in this book is meant to supplement, not replace, proper exercise training. All forms
of exercise pose some inherent risk. The author advises readers to take full responsibility for their
own safety and know their limits. Before practicing the exercises in this book, be sure that your
equipment is well-maintained. Recognize your own physical limitations and do not exercise beyond
the safe level dictated by your own experience and aptitude. Follow any dietary regimen
recommended by your doctor or physician. Before changing your diet or beginning any new exercise
program you should consult your doctor or physician.

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  • 1. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE
  • 2. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Please Note: You may freely share this complete document with anyone you wish. You may give it as a gift, a free download or include it as a bonus with any product you sell or giveaway. However, you may not sell this information or repackage it and present it as your own content.
  • 3. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Aerobics: The Big “Fat” Lie As a personal trainer, I'm pretty well known for going against the grain with my approach to exercise and nutrition. I’m also known as the personal trainer who transforms his clients faster than anyone else by teaching them to do the opposite of what they have always been told to do! – Kasper V. Christensen http://www.fortiusfitness.com - The Basics - • Cardio is short for cardiovascular exercise: exercise which requires work from the heart and lungs continuously for a prolonged time. • Jogging, running, swimming, spinning and aerobic classes all involve cardiovascular exercise. • It is commonly thought that cardiovascular exercise – including aerobics – is a good way to burn calories and lose weight. The problem with cardiovascular exercise is simple... ...It isn't actually a good way to lose body fat.
  • 4. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE The Evidence Cardiovascular exercise isn't good at burning fat. The evidence is all around us. Walk into any commercial gym in the world and you will find endless rows of treadmills, stair climbers, bikes and other cardio machines. Commercial gyms and fitness centres offer aerobic classes with exotic names like “fatburner” or spinning classes where dozens of people peddle their hearts out on bikes. Logically, all of these things are great for anyone who wants to lose weight. Cardio burns calories and aids fat loss, right? All these classes and gyms are packed with people desperately huffing and puffing away in an effort to shed a few pounds. They can't all be doing the wrong thing, surely? Take A Look Around! If only all these people would just open their eyes. They don’t even have to look far! They just need to glance to their side at their fellow sufferers or straight in front them - at the instructors of these classes themselves. Most of them are straight up overweight or skinny fat. They step, spin and dance away for sometimes hours a day, yet there’s no definition whatsoever to be found on their bodies. They never seem to actually get any more ripped, toned, or defined! If you ask people who ARE ripped and toned how they achieved their physique, they will tell you that they do heavy lifting besides their classes and watch what they eat. Why is it that people think they will get results, when the instructors themselves don’t? They keep slaving away hours after hours hoping that some magic will happen, and the logic will start to work.
  • 5. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Insanity I once read a pretty good definition of insanity. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein I don't need to tell you that Einstein was a smart guy. Why don’t people question their “logic” when it isn't producing results? If cardio is such a great way to lose weight, why does it fail so many people? Conventional Wisdom It amazes me that most people just copy what everyone else is doing, even when it obviously isn't working. Even personal trainers. What you hear about cardio seems to add up on paper. In practice, cardio doesn't produce results and sometimes even backfires, leaving people even more overweight. You have to wonder, if cardio isn't working now for these people, when is it going to start working? The simple answer is: never. More of the same won’t help. Often, it will make the problem even worse. This e-book is about how bad aerobics or cardiovascular training is for fat loss, so that’s what I’m going to use as an example to illustrate my point. Most people know the following facts about cardio. • Cardio burns calories during the actual session. • Cardio burns calories after the session. • Cardio raises the body’s metabolic rate. • Cardio puts the body into a calorie deficit. • And all in all, it supposedly burns body fat. The underlying logic is appealing – you are told that aerobics and cardio burn calories, and you have to burn calories to loose fat. And this is absolutely correct. You need a calorie deficit to lose body fat. The problem is that the body is a lot smarter than people give it credit for. The body only thinks in terms of survival: your body doesn't give a damn about how you want it to look! The body will burn as few calories as possible to make this
  • 6. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE happen. The more calories preserved, the better during times of famine. Remember, our current standard of living is a recent development which evolution hasn't caught up with. 10,000 years ago there were no supermarkets on every corner! The muscles in our bodies are the powerhouses that primarily dictate our metabolism. Our body is like a car. Muscle tissue is the most metabolically expensive tissue we have in the body, so it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if we build muscle through strength training we put a bigger engine in the body which will in turn require more fuel (calories) – even at rest. A bigger engine in a car burns more fuel. Similarly, the more muscle you have, the more calories your body requires to function. That’s the beauty of building muscle – it increases our metabolism which allows us to eat more without gaining body fat! It also allows us to burn body fat more easily if we have a negative calorie balance. Now back to the logic that if you perform cardio you burn calories. No arguments there. The BIG problem is that a lot more is going on. Cardio doesn't work in our favour when fat loss is the objective. Let's find out more...
  • 7. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE The 5 Big Problems With Excessive Cardio It doesn't burn a lot of calories. It destroys muscle mass. It causes injuries. Cardio burns carbohydrates, not fat! No EPOC (Excess Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption) Let's have a closer look.
  • 8. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Problem #1 It Doesn't Burn A Lot Of Calories Cardio equipment usually asks you to punch in your weight before you start your workout. You start the workout and continue until you have burned, for example, 300 calories according to the machine. This will take around 40 min if you burn 8 calories per minute. Now, have you ever wondered why the machines want to know your weight? If you answered to calculate how many calories you burn you are right. What you most likely failed to consider is the main reason it needs your weight is to calculate your basal metabolic rate. Let’s say a person maintains his weight on about 2500 calories a day. That means they need 105 calories an hour at rest. So the 300 calories burned are NOT calories burned above your basal metabolic rate, they are calories burned INCLUDING your basal metabolic rate. So for your time on the treadmill, you burned about 195 calories above your baseline. If you did this every night for a week, you wouldn't burn enough calories to equal the amount stored in one pound of fat. Think about it...if we were so metabolically efficient as to burn 300 calories at the rate the exercise equipment says you do, would we ever have survived as a species? The calories that would be burned hunting and gathering would have caused us to die of starvation before we could ever have found anything to eat - at that rate of calorie burn, we would barely have enough metabolic economy to survive a trip to the grocery store. Let us assume that you have the determination and time to do such a workout 7 days a week. If we take the 300 calories burned and subtract the basal metabolic rate of 105 calories, we are left with 195 calories burned. There are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. If you kept a stable calorie intake, it would take you 18 days to burn off ONE pound of fat with the extra activity. That’s nearly three weeks and a total of 12 hours to burn ONE POUND OF FAT! This is assuming that no other variables are present. Unfortunately there is a big variable that almost no-one accounts for...MUSCLE LOSS…
  • 9. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Problem #2 It Destroys Muscle Mass In order to exercise long enough to burn 300 calories you have to perform cardiovascular activity at an intensity you can keep up for a prolonged time. Such intensity does not place much demand on the muscles, that is why it can be carried out for so long. The only thing the body senses is that its master demands traveling great distances. Your body settles down for a long period of slow exertion and begins doing something that many people don't expect... When you perform this type of exercise your body can adapt by actually losing muscle, making its engine smaller so it can preserve calories. Additional muscle is perceived as dead weight when you are on the move for a long period of time - muscle itself burns calories, so when the going gets tough your body responds by getting rid of as much muscle mass as possible to keep you going – a survival mechanism. The body often responds in a way that seems counter-intuitive. Don’t drink any water? Your body tries to retain water. Does weight training build muscle? No it doesn’t. What actually occurs is a breakdown of muscle tissue and the body ADAPTS by building muscle. So, if you burn of calories doing aerobic training, that same body adapts to aerobic exercise by slowing your metabolism and allowing your body to store more fat. This means that as the body gets rid of muscle mass our metabolism is lowered and requires fewer calories to run. Continuing with the example above, the person in question now only requires 2200 calories to maintain their weight, as their muscle mass has deteriorated thanks to intense cardio. Most people get confused. Why isn’t cardio helping me lose weight? I run every day and I only seem to maintain my weight. Some days, I seem to again weight! People, knowing that cardio burns calories, blame themselves for not doing enough. They increase the amount of training they do, making the problem even worse!
  • 10. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE A good car is one that is economic with fuel. As you do aerobic activity to burn fat, your body becomes more economical. Like a good car, it needs less fuel to run – which means you burn less fat the better you become at aerobic activity! This is hardly the reason why people start doing it! As you progress, eventually you'll need to do a huge amount of training just to keep your weight stable and keep the accumulation of fat at bay. Furthermore, the stress hormones that result from such overtraining also stimulate fat storage and weaken the immune system which opens the door infections. Have you noticed how often long distance athletes complain of colds and sore throats? Anyone who has attempted such a program of weight loss can confirm...you will end up feeling washed out, moody, and (worst of all) fatter. The truth is this: you cannot use physical activity to negate excess caloric intake. Does muscle mass really matter so much? Yes. The amount of lean muscle on your body directly helps dictate the speed of metabolism and how much food you can “get away with” eating. Extensive cardio. Less muscle mass, slower metabolism, smaller “engine”. Burns less calories. More lean muscle mass, faster metabolism, bigger “engine”. Burns more calories.
  • 11. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Think about what happens when you hit your 30’s. Remember when you were a teenager and could eat everything in sight and not get fat? Somewhere in your 30's things changed. Now it seems like just looking at food can make you fat. What happened? The answer is simple: your muscle mass started to decline. This is natural. As we age we lose muscle mass unless we give it a reason to stay. And as stated many times now – with reduced muscle mass our metabolism goes down. So if you’re past 30, you’re accelerating the ageing process even more if you throw prolonged cardio into the fray. Your weight loss goals are like a carrot on a stick, and you are actually destroying the very thing that burns calories round the clock – muscle mass. Tip: You can find a beginners guide to weight training that will help you build muscle mass at http://fortiusfitness.com/beginnerstraining. Suitable for both men and women. In weight training, as you get better, you add more weight or more reps and there is literally no finish line. In aerobic training, it will take less work to run 5 miles as you get fitter. So to continue to improve can you either go further (do more work for the same amount of calories) or you can run faster. Going further kind of defeats the purpose. Why run 40 minutes to burn the calories you once burned in 30 minutes? What kind of progression is that? It’s the law of diminishing returns! And going faster isn't a solution either. Pretty soon you will run into another problem. You can’t keep on increasing intensity - you have to slow down sooner or later. So, if we accept that muscle mass is a major factor in your fat burning engine - and aerobic training makes that engine smaller (i.e. it reduces the amount of muscle on your body) and more efficient at burning fat (remember more efficient means it burns LESS) - how can you hope to lose weight when the very activity that is supposed to burn fat makes you a smaller, more efficient fat burning (you burn less of it!) machine?
  • 12. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Problem #3 It Causes Injuries Long slow aerobic training remains the biggest practical joke in fitness. If you do long, slow cardio, it’s only a matter of time before you end up in a physiotherapist’s office with all the others that do too much of the same thing. Whether it’s running or spin classes, overuse injuries are far too common in the cardio world. I know of many people who run to get fit yet they have back pain, knee injuries, shin splints, muscle imbalances and other problems! The reason for this is that the overwhelming majority of people move poorly. When you take a body that moves poorly and move it this way for an extended period of time - add in ground reaction forces - you make lots of physical therapists happy. Aerobics are an extremely damaging form of exercise, yet for some strange reason, the ability to withstand pain has become associated with athleticism. The epitome of withstanding punishment by way of aerobic overload is the marathon. The story behind the Marathon Run is based on an ancient Greek legend of the soldier, Pheldippides, who ran 26 miles to tell the emperor that their army was victorious in battle over the Persians. Then he dropped dead. As much as I may admire the physical and mental toughness it takes to finish a marathon, it has little to do with one's health or appearance. It certainly won't enhance it. The ability to tolerate punishment and damage is not a very accurate gauge of one's health or strength. An activity such as running, besides being unnaturally stressing to the knees, ankles, and lower back, will also increase free radical damage due to the higher ingestion of oxygen. That means you age faster!
  • 13. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Problem #4 Cardio burns carbohydrates, not fat! When you’re active you burn calories. Many people believe that they burn fat when they perform prolonged aerobic activity. This is where the theory of the fat burning zone comes from. We have three energy systems that the body uses. • Fat-based: Used in low intensity slow activities such as walking and the muscles preferred fuel at rest. • ATP-based: Used in high intensity activities such as sprinting for very short distances or lifting heavy things. • Our third energy system is carbohydrate or glycogen based: used in medium intensity activities such as running, cycling or jogging for long distances. It’s an inefficient and costly affair for the body to use this energy system. Carbohydrates or glycogen is stored in muscles and the liver, which can only hold 500-600 grams of glycogen - fuel for about an hour of continuous work. When these stores are empty, you will start cannibalizing your own muscle tissue for fuel. You can also eat some simple sugars that hit the bloodstream fast delivering immediate energy. But why eat during exercise if fat loss is the objective? We just weren't designed to operate at medium intensity for long periods of time. We evolved to walk long distances, gathering food, tracking prey etc, sprinting occasionally to escape a predator or catch an animal to eat, climbing, throwing and lifting heavy things. We're meant to alternate periods of kicking back with short periods of kicking ass conserving as much energy as possible – not running to keep the heart rate up or reach some type of fat burning/aerobic zone. How many animals jog? None! They walk and sprint occasionally.
  • 14. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Yes, the body burns some fat during aerobics, but most of the energy that’s burned is carbohydrates. Have you ever noticed bike riders and marathon runners always have their little energy gels with them? These are simple sugars that give instant energy to the muscles. If the primary fuel was fat, they would have eaten oils instead. Now, if you burn so much sugar during the activity, what do you think the body craves after the workout? Yep, sugar. And lots of it. Meaning that you will easily eat the amount of calories burned during the actual session...and probably more!
  • 15. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Problem #4 No EPOC (Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption) If you compared a 45-minute cardio session to a 45 minute resistance training session, you'd find that you burn more calories minute-to-minute doing cardio than you do lifting weights. This is why most people are under the assumption that cardio burns more calories overall and is the most efficient approach to fat loss. However, what many trainees don't take into consideration is EPOC, which describes the calories you burn AFTER you train. Once again, the cardio “logic” begins to fail when we look at things in more depth! How many calories you burn during a training session is only a small part of a bigger picture. To get a real idea of what a training session is doing, you need to take a look at the total number of calories you burn in the 24-48 hours afterwards. The common cardio “logic” doesn't take this into account. Most people simply think of the gym as an isolated experience in the day and ignore what happens after. When you run, step, spin or other cardio activities you burn some calories, but as soon as you stop doing these things, nothing more will happen. There’s no damage to the muscles – that’s why you can do it every day. The time and calories required for the body to repair the damage are minimal. When you train with weights, you break muscle tissue down. Your body needs energy (calories) to repair and build them up again. Compare this to steady-state cardio, where there is little to no "spark" as far as metabolism is concerned and you can see which is more effective in terms of overall fat loss. So, in order to really burn body fat and not muscle the key is to think not just how many calories we can burn during exercise, but about how many calories we can force the body to burn round the clock.
  • 16. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Spot The Difference! The principles described so far can be seen everywhere. Take a look at the following two men: Marathon runner Sprinter In my opinion he looks sick. Strong, lean, powerful and healthy looking! Have you ever noticed how strong, ripped and powerful sprint and power athletes look? In comparison, long distance athletes appear thin, worn and older than they actually are.
  • 17. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Everyone wants to look like a sprinter, and sprinters do almost ZERO continuous aerobic work, yet they have less body-fat than long distance runners. “Logic” tells us this shouldn't be the case. According to the common cardio logic they should be fat. Think about this: few people want to look like a marathon runner, but the common advice is that to look like a sprinter, you need to train the way a marathon runner does. How weird is that? We can even transfer this to the gym. If we look around the gym, where do we find the lean, muscular or toned physiques? In the weights room! NOT in the cardio section, spinning or aerobic classes. Strength training is a lot like sprinting. Short burst of maximum intensity followed by rest. Running on a treadmill or stepping away in a class, is directly proportional to a long distance race. Every year thousands of overweight people complete triathlons and marathons. This alone proves that the nature of aerobic activity involved in such a pursuit has a limited or zero effect on fat burning.
  • 18. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Case Study #1: Jamie Eason Jamie Eason, seen on the left, has the kind of body most women dream of. Most people assume she must spend every waking moment in the gym doing grueling cardio! Here's what she has to say: “I'm not a huge fan of cardio. I prefer to eat clean. Most women overdo the cardio and avoid weights for fear of getting too big. That is a huge misconception! I tell women all the time that they can do cardio and diet all day long but they're never going to achieve the "tone" they're after. Without incorporating weights, they will likely end up just a smaller version of themselves.” Some women, like Rachel Cosgrove, take Jamie's advice to heart... (next page) Tip: Of course, diet also plays an integral part in weight loss. I have written a complete nutrition guide which you can find on my website. This will help you gain muscle and lose weight without ever feeling hungry! http://fortiusfitness.com/nutritionmanual
  • 19. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Case Study #2: Jamie Eason Rachel Cosgrove used to do over 20 hours of cardio work a week. “I worked my way up to doing over twenty hours of endurance training a week. I also kept track of every calorie I ate; making sure my nutrition was right on track. I thought I'd be able to eat whatever I wanted, but I couldn't. I had to watch myself to keep from gaining any weight. I now have first-hand experience that steady-state aerobics is absolutely, completely, utterly ineffective for fat loss. After working my way up to twenty training hours a week, I can tell you that long, steady-state endurance is not the answer for a defined, lean physique and it's a waste of time if your goal is fat loss. It's only the answer if your goal is to complete an endurance event.” Today, Rachel spends 5 hours a week weight and interval training to maintain her “toned” look. “I eliminated all steady-state endurance exercise. No running, biking, swimming, or anything else in the steady-state. In an eight-week period my body returned to being strong, defined, and lean. I no longer looked like a flabby endurance athlete, and I did it in a quarter of the time, compared to the aerobic training. Get off the treadmill, stop spinning your wheels, and push yourself in the gym if you want to lose some serious fat.”
  • 20. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Case Study #3: Me & My Girlfriend Joan I got into the best condition of my life in 2006 where I placed 3 rd in a competition against 21 other competitors. The only cardio I did was for the last 4 weeks where I did intervals 3 times a week to prepare for a 500 meter row that was a part of the competition. I did the same thing in 1999 when I reached a very similar condition. For the competitions in-between I did a lot of various cardio but never reached the condition I wanted. It was when I skipped the cardio that I was able to reach really low body fat levels without losing muscle in the process. I trained my girlfriend (pictured on the right) for the 2008 athletic fitness competition which she won. She did the exact training as I did for my competition in 2007: the conclusion is that my training works perfectly for woman as well. (See next page) Today I maintain a condition close to the picture at left. I hit the weights hard 3 times a week and some intervals or complexes 1-2 times a week.
  • 21. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Gyms & The Fat Loss Formula Gyms need members to survive. It’s a lot easier and inexpensive to charge someone $30 per month and show them how to press 'quick start' on a cardio machine than it is to teach them how to train with free weights while simultaneously improving their diets! Do you think they could keep the low membership fee, if they should learn every member correct training and nutrition habits? If they even know how! So what works? If you haven't figured it out by now, resistance training is FAR superior compared to long duration aerobics or steady-state cardiovascular exercise for fat loss. It increases your metabolism not only by rebuilding of damaged muscle tissue but also the increase in muscle mass which raises your metabolism 24 hours a day. The more muscle you build the more your metabolism goes up. The jury’s still out on how much a pound of muscle actually boosts your metabolism, but the results can’t be argued with! These are the keys to burn body fat and keep it off. As you have just leaned cardio training decreases it. Lifting weights is far more important to your long term fat loss success and to reshaping your body. If you’re female don't worry about becoming the next female version of The Incredible Hulk. Muscle is a lot denser than fat. As you loose fat you become smaller even when you build muscle. This will give the toned look the majority of woman wants. Strength training increases cardiovascular fitness as well, but if you absolute want to make sure that you’re covered in that department, all you have to do is throw some hard intervals into your routine. You've now almost finished reading this book – it’s my hope that you have learned what not to do if fat loss is your goal. Some exercise is better than none, so of course I do not recommend people stop their activity. I just want people to think! Question their “logic”! Open their eyes and see what happens right in front of them!
  • 22. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Aerobics & cardio training are grossly over-rated and over abused. Over rated for health, over rated for performance and definitely over rated for fat loss. How sad it is that aerobics will not do what everyone is expecting it to do? It is NOT healthy. It will NOT increase your lifespan. It will NOT improve flexibility. It will NOT grow muscle. It will NOT strengthen your heart any more than weight training. It will NOT improve your appearance. And most of all, it will NOT help you lose fat. Aerobics are good for one thing and one thing only: they make you better at doing aerobics. Q. Can’t I just throw strength training upon our cardiovascular activity? A. No, because we have to take overtraining into consideration. You have to be really careful with your training economy. Strength training is hard for the body to recover from. Throw a lot of cardio in to the mix, will just have a negative impact on your results. And why bother. If 10 hours accomplish nothing, 2-3 hours won’t add anything. Q. I already lift weights but I cant quite seem to build any more lean muscle mass. I feel like I'm stuck in a rut. What should I do? A. This is a common complaint. I have a whole book dedicated to advanced training techniques, designed to help you start making progress again, on my website. You can find it at http://fortiusfitness.com/advancedtraining. Head over and have a look! The formula for fat loss success is pretty straightforward: If you do these 2 things correctly and with discipline, these simple steps will prove successful beyond your expectations and you'll blow away all of those poor souls stomping away in the cardio area. The sooner that's realized, the sooner you'll be on your way toward better progress. I know it's tough to accept. But changing a bad habit is a lot smarter than defending it. In my e-books I presents the methods I have found to be the most successful to rip fat of your body and build muscle in record time. Save yourself time and learn the strategies to reach your goals – FAST!
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  • 24. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Testimonials for FortiusFitness Even clearer was the results when we looked ourselves in the mirror. The muscles were bigger and clearly defined and left were two very satisfied customers. Jeppe Saggau Lond og Morten Melander Petersen - 21 years Before I started with Kasper I trained 6-7 times a week and got nowhere. Now I train every other day and I can see significant difference. I lost a lot of kilos and began to build muscle. Ali Ahmad Amiri - 21 years I had set myself a goal - In 8 weeks I would get my bodyfat down before I went on vacation. I must say that it came. From 30 to 23%. Im so I’m happy. It just shows that Kaspers fitness and diet program works. Marie Brendstrup - 26 years Basic things like the way we all believe we must work out to build muscle and lose fat changed suddenly. It took him a long time to convince me of some of the stuff, but he succeeded and I won because of that. Joan Lang – winner of athletic fitness 2008 You can read more testimonials from satisfied clients here: http://www.fortiusfitness.com/testimonials
  • 25. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE About The Author As a certified personal trainer and nutrition specialist, Kasper V. Christensen has more than 20 years of coaching experience and has trained over 10,000 clients from all walks of life. Kasper V. Christensen is the founder of FortiusFitness which offers online personal training and ebooks that share Kasper's techniques and methods with anyone who wants to build a strong, lean, toned or muscular physique - the natural way! Once an insecure, 130 pound skinny young man, Kasper is now a muscular 180 pound professional fitness coach, magazine model, gym owner and seasoned fitness competitor; achieving top placings in 7 separate fitness competitions without the aid of performance enhancing drugs of any kind. His success story has made him a highly sought after personal trainer and today his training and nutrition programs help others obtain mind blowing results in record time. He currently resides in the wonderful city of Copenhagen, Denmark, with his beautiful girlfriend Joan. Connect! If you'd like me to create a personalized nutrition and training plan for you, you can email me at kasper@fortiusfitness.com You can also find FortiusFitness on Facebook! Visit http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fortius-Fitness/141598499194509 to show your support and help spread the word.
  • 26. AEROBICS: THE BIG “FAT” LIE Disclaimer The information in this book is meant to supplement, not replace, proper exercise training. All forms of exercise pose some inherent risk. The author advises readers to take full responsibility for their own safety and know their limits. Before practicing the exercises in this book, be sure that your equipment is well-maintained. Recognize your own physical limitations and do not exercise beyond the safe level dictated by your own experience and aptitude. Follow any dietary regimen recommended by your doctor or physician. Before changing your diet or beginning any new exercise program you should consult your doctor or physician.