| You've got a weight loss goal. Excellent. You have a | | | | Building Muscle Does Not Have to Take a Lot of Time |
| deadline. Even better. Have you calculated how much | | | | Wipe the idea of multiple reps and multiple sets of |
| running it will require on a weekly basis to get you from | | | | grunt work at the gym from your mind. Sure there is |
| here to there? | | | | work involved. But the muscle building part is passive, |
| Fifteen minutes of jogging on a treadmill burns roughly | | | | you can do it in your sleep. No really. Your body builds |
| 100 calories. There are 3500 calories in one pound of | | | | and repairs muscle while you rest. How cool is that? |
| fat. Let's see, that's uh, over 8 hours of running per | | | | Work Out Once A Week |
| week required to lose one pound?! If you haven't the | | | | Following the 'Power of 10: The Once-A-Week Slow |
| time to exercise on the weekend, you'll have to find at | | | | Motion Fitness Revolution' program you work out once |
| least an hour and a half each day before or after | | | | a week for less than half an hour. The workout |
| work. Who has that kind of time? | | | | involves moving through each exercise v-e-r-y |
| In order to lose weight we have to either reduce our | | | | s-l-o-w-l-y. This eliminates risk of injury and maximizes |
| caloric intake or increase the amount of calories that | | | | muscle involvement. You keep the weights moving until |
| we burn. Or both. Unfortunately, as our little bit of math | | | | you cannot move them and then you hold for 10 |
| has revealed, aerobic activity as a means of weight | | | | seconds. This means each muscle group is completely |
| loss by itself presents an enormous time challenge. | | | | worked in just one set. That's it, the hard part is over. |
| Increase the Calories Burned | | | | Now you eat healthy, drink plenty of water and rest. |
| Men typically require more food calories a day than | | | | Let your body build the muscle and burn them calories. |
| women just to live because, on average, they have a | | | | Clients of Adam Zickerman, the creator of 'Power of |
| higher ratio of muscle to fat. It's a fact that the more | | | | 10: The Once-A-Week Slow Motion Fitness Revolution', |
| muscle you have the more calories you burn even | | | | report feeling results by the end of their second week. |
| when sitting still. Three pounds of muscle can consume | | | | The best part? You can still run as much as you want. |
| 10,000 calories a month while just sitting on the couch. | | | | But you run because you want to not because you |
| That's roughly 40 kilometers run on the treadmill or 25 | | | | have to. And that makes all the difference. |
| lunch time aerobic classes. | | | | |