Why Shorter Workouts Are More Productive Than Long Ones Guess what?!
For years the magazines claimed that you needed to train 6 days a week 2 hours per day. When I challenged that and trained for 4-5 times per week for only 1 hour per day I started growing like a weed. Why? Because after 1 hour your production of anabolic hormones decline and your cortisol levels start increasing. As a result, you burn more muscle than what you put. Also, training more than 5 days a week is also a waste of time as your nervous system requires rest in order for it to be able to activate as many muscle fibers as possible while you exercise. Why Excessive Cardiovascular Exercise Is Unnecessary for Losing Body Fat Too much cardio kills muscle; period! As a matter of fact, I recall a time when I was doing 1 hour of cardio in the morning, weight training at noon time, and 1 more hour of cardio in the afternoon. I was following a 2000 calorie diet and while I lost good body fat for a couple of weeks then I stagnated and lost nothing else. Once I got fed up with the situation a
