Ben Greenfield

So it's like hot is good, but more is not necessarily better if you're wanting to get enough blood flow to the muscles to crank out a few extra reps and get strong.

concurrent training, meaning doing strength and cardio at the same time, either in the same workout or throughout the week, the most superior form for fat loss versus just strength or just cardio.

Okay.

Um, kind of like the order for fat loss is concurrent training and then aerobic training and then strength training.

So concurrent means at the same... So an example of a concurrent workout, and there's like one classic workout that showed it just burned way more calories and blasted more fat than just about any workout you could do, is you would do, let's say... I'll give you an example of a workout that I do if I'm pressed for time and I just want to get as many benefits as possible out of the workout, metabolic stimuli, strength, et cetera.

Now,

before i explain this there will be like a few choice people listening in who know exercise science will say well what about the interference effect the interference effect means that if you are doing cardio and strength the strength isn't going to be quite as good as it could be if you were doing the cardio and the cardio is going to be quite as good as it could be if you're doing strength but both put together for fat loss and the metabolic stimuli are gold standard and that's called concurrent training

so this would be like i walk into let's say like my hotel gym back here in santa monica and i do two minutes on the airdyne and then i do a super set of chest press to push-ups and then i do two minutes on the airdyne and then i do a super set of leg press to hamstring curls and then i do two minutes on the airdyne and i super set overhead press to band pull parse and then finally two minutes on the airdyne

and lat pull downs to seated rows.

Like that's an example of a concurrent training workout where it's all done in the same set.

And you're kind of like huffing wind and you have a metabolic rate that's through the roof.

You're burning a ton of calories because you're never just like sitting there, you know, watching TV in between sets and you're kind of like moving the whole time.

Another example of concurrent training for more of like a weekly periodized standpoint would be, and I do this a lot of times when I'm at home, like

Full body strength Monday, core and cardio Tuesday.

Full body strength Wednesday, core and cardio Thursday.

And then full body strength on Friday and core and cardio on Saturday.

So that's an example of a week in which you're doing both aerobic and strength training.

And back to the fat loss piece, that would be an example of the best way to move or exercise if you want to burn fat.

I would say kind of related to that, one of the bigger mistakes that people make in the exercise department specifically would be hearing that zone two cardio, like aerobic cardio burns a lot of fat.

And that's like, they're just like the treadmill walking people because of that.