The Select Form of Exercise

It should be clear now that the only exercises that can burn significant calories, and/or fat, are high intensity exercises. They require you to spend a lot of energy and effort. Many people are not able to do that for any length of time for various reasons, but the good news is that doing them only for short periods of time is actually better. Short periods of intense exercise alternating with short rest periods are actually better for both body building and stamina, as well as helping you to lose weight. Refer back to the exercises described in the first three chapters of this book. (See page 20, “The Best Body Exercise”.)

They are short periods of high intensity exercise. It has been shown that prolonged exercise of moderate to high intensity may do more harm than good. It will cause more stress to many of the systems in your body. Look at long distance runners for example. When they come to the finish line, some of them collapse from exhaustion and can hardly breathe; they require Oxygen! They can’t breathe fast enough to meet their body’s demand for Oxygen by just gasping for regular air. They need Oxygen. Some even experience sudden death before reaching the finish line, some shortly
thereafter; and so it can be with prolonged strenuous exercise of any kind.

The body’s organ systems we are most concerned with here are the ones most closely involved in or affected by exercise. These are the heart, lungs and muscles. The great news is that repeated short periods of high intensity exercises will actually strengthen those body systems, as well as burn lots of both calories and fat! A recent confirmation of that concept can be found in a new publication (See recommendation for Dr. Sear’s programs)(7). He has put together a complete program of physical fitness, using frequent short bursts of strenuous activity as opposed to prolonged strenuous activities.

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