After my last post, my good friend Forrest wrote me an email and shared with me a tip that his personal trainer gave him. He said that his personal trainer, ( the former human performance trainer for the USC football team.), told him that the best, most efficient way to burn fat and loose weight is with Long Slow Distance (LSD) training, (along with intervals.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_slow_distance
Upon further investigation of LSD, I find the fitness world divided into two camps. One camp promotes LSD as the end all and be all of weight loss and fat burning, the other camp thinks you will actually get fatter, and that interval training, with resistance and core training is the way to go.
This guy, David Modderman, makes a very good argument against LSD.
http://www.davidmodderman.com/blog/index.php/weight-loss/long-slow-cardiomore-fat/
So where does this leave me in my seemingly never ending pursuit of fat burning and weight loss?? Honestly, it leaves me wanting to crawl under the covers and sleep until the world makes up it's mind about things! I had planned on trying out an LSD run tonight to see how it goes. Now, I think I'll just run intervals. Tomorrow and Wednesday are Krav nights, and Thursday is boot camp. If I add running intervals tonight, Friday, and Saturday to the three hours of heavy resistance, core, and light cardio at the gym, that should round out everything nicely, don't you think?? Maybe. Or maybe I should try LSD this week with the three gym hours. Oh I just don't know!!! Maybe I'll just go take a nap.
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