The Pace®: 12-Minute Fitness Revolution and Weight Loss Program
It doesn't take hours of exercise to get here
If you’ve had enough of those 60-minute fitness gym workouts or knee-jarring long distance runs there’s a revolution on the way to get you “off the treadmill.”
Dr Al Sears has pioneered an exercise program that proposes to have you achieve the same fitness and weight loss results in about… 12-20 minutes per day depending on your goal.
This program is called PACE®: The 12-Minute Fitness Revolution.
Sound interesting?
Dr Sears believes many of the fat-burning aerobics and cardio training programs don’t burn fat but instead encourage the body to make it.
Additionally he feels prolonged periods of exercising – over 20-minutes – is actually detrimental to the very organs they purport to strengthen and expand.
My interest in his research is focused more on weight loss.
Most exercise in support of weight loss consists of “fat-burning” workouts such as cardio and aerobics training – the type of training he maintains is just plain wrong for weight loss.
Our bodies are wonderful at adapting to the demands we place on it but this doesn’t always produce the desired effect as you’ll discover.
In the first 20-minutes of exercise we tap into carbs and other energy sources to sustain our exercise, but AFTER 20-minutes we enter the “fat-burning” period and conventional exercise for weight loss tells us to stay in the “fat-burning” period for as long as we can sustain.
This changes everything
Logically it sounds right because we want to burn fat through exercise, right?
Wrong.
The problem is our bodies will build fat for us so we have more fat to burn in preparation for our next workout. This is not good!
The body adapts with our demand for fat by generating it – instead of muscle.
On the other hand the Pace® program advocates short bursts of intensity during a 12-20 minute workout. The intensity lasts usually for no more than one-minute with two-minute recovery before repeating. The effect is you get a workout in 12-minutes equivalent to a 45-60-minute session on the track or in the gym.
If you’re following me so far you may have the question – “so if you’re not entering the fat-burning period during workout isn’t this a problem if I want to burn fat?”
Good question.
In effect during your workout no fat is burned.I can hear your disbelief…
But fat is burned AFTER your workout because your body burns it up in replacing the carbs and other energy sources it depleted during your workout. And the good thing is it creates muscle in the organs and places you want it created.
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Under this scenario your body has no need to make “extra” fat.
Dr Sears has studied the exercise phenomenon for many years and he developed the PACE® program when he concluded that aerobics and cardio workouts were the wrong way to help us get fit and lose weight.
He is not along in this revaluation either.
Today, there are a number of programs advocating shorter workouts, and his colleagues in the medical profession have grave misgivings about our obsession with prolong forms of exercise.
While many people will be relieved to discover they don’t have to spend hours each day on gym equipment or jogging but can achieve the equivalent in as little as 12-minutes, nonetheless the PACE® program still requires periods of high intensity workout – in other words… you will break into a sweat. You just won’t have to take all your lunch hour or evening to do your daily exercise.
If you’re looking for an exercise program to compliment your diet plan then I encourage you to take a more detailed look at Dr Al Sears PACE®: The 12-Minute Fitness Revolution program here.
Erika Slater, CH
Free At Last Hypnosis
Erika@smoke-free-at-last.com
www.Smoke-Free-At-Last.com
508 529 2490
P.S. While optional Dr Sears program is complimented with using a heart rate monitor, and he got so frustrated with those on the market being over-priced and full of unnecessary complicated gadgets and operation that he worked with one of the top brands to design one that is easy to use and half the price of most on the market. You can read about it at this blog post I did on the PACE Heart Rate Monitor here.
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