Category Archive for "Cardio & Fat Loss"

Over the past several years, the popularity of H.I.I.T cardio (short for “High Intensity Interval Training”) has taken off like wildfire. In contrast to traditional low intensity/long duration cardio, H.I.I.T sessions take the opposite approach by utilizing a harder pace…

Whether your primary goal is to build muscle or lose fat, including additional cardio exercise in your program is a useful way to burn through additional calories. It can be used during a mass gaining phase to keep body fat…

We’ve all seen it… That guy or girl who always seems to be at the gym running on the treadmill, lifting weights and taking spin classes… but who looks exactly the same week after week and month after month. How…

If you’re training hard in the gym and following a controlled nutrition plan, you likely have one of two primary goals: A) You want to pack on overall muscle size and strength. B) You want to burn off body fat…

For anyone looking to burn fat, gain lean muscle and get into impressive shape, nothing is more annoying than looking down to see excess rolls of flab hanging from your midsection. It can be a stubborn area to lean down,…

There are two primary reasons to include cardio in your training program… 1) Your primary goal is to build muscle, but you want to minimize body fat gains while you bulk up. 2) Your primary goal is to lose body…

HIIT cardio has been all the rage over the past few years. Short for “high intensity interval training”, HIIT workouts are a style of cardio where the trainee alternates between periods of high and low intensity throughout the duration of…

Performing cardio on an empty stomach (usually first thing in the morning after an overnight fast) has been a popular fat burning strategy among bodybuilders for many years. It seems to make sense… Since there is no food in the…