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July 30, 2007
The New Celebrity Workout Plan: No Cardio!
Stop using treadmills, stair masters and elliptical machines.
Celebrity personal trainer Jim Karas, who has helped Diane Sawyer and Hugh Jackman whip into shape, is revealing to “Extra” that cardio is actually an enemy!
“Cardio kills your body and most importantly, it kills your weight loss goals,” Karas said. “We'd go, go, go hitting the strength training, and never touched a piece of cardiovascular exercise.”
Jim explained that is because cardio exercise decreases your metabolism, while weight training gives it a boost.
“Let’s get that metabolism up, that’s the key to weight loss,” he insisted.
Now the trainer is whipping singer and "American Idol" alum Kimberly Locke into shape.
“I just lost a significant amount of weight, but I hit a wall,” Kim admitted. “I'm saying, and probably everyone else out there is saying, ‘What do we do?’”
The answer is interval base strength training or exercises that engage more than one body part, according to Jim in his new book, “The Cardio-Free Diet.”
The trainer also said you do not have to work out more than one hour a week, never do more than 10 repetitions of a single exercise and always eat something before you hit the gym.
If you don’t follow these steps, Jim said, “You could burn muscle for energy; you never want to do that.”
Like most people, Kimberly is ecstatic about this new workout plan!
“You just made my day! No cardio! I'm the happiest girl in the world,” Kimberly gushed.
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How does cardio kill your body? Cardio is better for your health overall, especially for your heart and lungs. Cardio burns fat alone through aerobic pathways of metabolism. People who run on a daily basis will burn more calories than someone who does strength training alone. If you don’t have some form of aerobic training, you’ll be burning off glycogen stores more and a little fat.
People who workout their cardio are able to eat more and stay lean (Michael Phelps anyone?). People who do strength training are able to eat more and just end up bulking up. Guess what happens to those strength trainers who stop working out, their big muscles would shrink and fat would end up replacing those areas.
A good way to lose weight and stay in shape is to have a combination of aerobic workouts, weight training, and a proper diet. You can’t just skip one or the other if you want a really good body.