Jeff Cavaliere

You just can't really do it for more than, let's say, 10 minutes, even in interval format.

So what are you really burning there if you did it even straight through for 10 minutes, 15 calories a minute, you're talking about 150 calories.

So people who use their cardio for weight loss or caloric deficit are going to do better doing longer distance cardio at lower intensity levels.

So getting on a bike and riding or getting...

jogging or running or even doing laps in interval fashion where it's a jog and a run and a jog and a run.

There's a lot of different ways to do that, but to sustain them for a lot longer periods, 45 minutes to an hour.

But there again, I'm a big believer that when you're trying to create the deficit,

relying on the conditioning we're not talking about cardiovascular here we're talking about just recruiting the deficit relying on the conditioning is a much more inefficient way to go about this than what's actually should be done which is just to focus on your nutrition because it's it's just so much more effective to create large

deficits or large swaths of deficits from cutting back the crap you're eating right now than it is to try to get it through zone two cardio done for very long periods of time.

Again, not to say that that's not beneficial for your cardio and your cardiac conditioning.

It's a separate issue.

But when you're trying to create caloric deficits there, I always tell people first, you got to work on what you're

putting in your mouth because the old saying goes you can't outrun a bad diet and there's just there's just no way to really do that effectively over time so of the two forms i'd say the the zone two steady state longer form is going to do more absolute levels of caloric burn i don't know if you've ever done this but i know you're you and everybody has to you know pay attention to their caloric needs and nutrition needs but what does nutrition look like for you in a given day

So I don't know how many calories I take in a given day.

I've never really counted past when I really first started out.

And I think it's an important part of the process is people should count because it does two things.

Early on, they should count because it gives you awareness.

You may have no idea how many calories you're actually having until you actually count them.

You also become aware of many of the things that you are taking for granted that you're just doing

almost second nature that it's just not healthy.