105 - The Magic Fat Loss Pill: LISS

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But does everybody know about List cardio? Well, let's take a quick step back here. What is hit cardio? Hit is an acronym. Stands for High Intensity Interval Training.

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So it's not hitt it's HIIT. High intensity interval training. Essentially, you are going to elevate your heart rate to a very, very high rate for a short period of time. So that way you tap into fat and Glycogen stores, and then that way, once you get the fat and Glycogen stores tapped into, your body has to utilize that for energy, and therefore you start to burn off that excess fat. Now, if you're anything like me, I hate cardio with a burning passion.

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So for me, Hit cardio, even though I can do it, it is not enjoyable and I don't end up sticking with it. So I decided to say, you know what, there has to be some better way out there that I can do. I don't even mind if it takes a little bit longer, like an extra couple of months for me to reach the goal. I just don't want to do no Hit cardio. I hate burpees, I hate jumping rope.

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I hate having to run. I don't like doing that stuff. It is not fun, it is not enjoyable. And even if I try to do it to myself, I'm going to do it regardless. I just never stick with it.

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So it has to have some level of, okay, this is not too far out of the way for me to go ahead and do so now because I went on this big old hunt for stuff, I found out about List cardio, and I decided to share it with you guys. So what is List cardio? Liss cardio. That stands for low intensity. So you already got me on board with that one.

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Low intensity steady state cardio. So what is this? So where hit is high intensity, list is low intensity. So with Hit, you'd be doing sprints and burpees and all those kind of things. List is more of just walking, basically.

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And that's actually one of the best ways of List cardio. If you go on YouTube and you look up this guy called Dr. Mike Diamonds, he is one of the biggest proponents of walking. Now you have to do a lot of walking to be able to even come close to the effects of Hit if you want to get the same results in a similar time frame. A lot of walking, I'm talking 10,000 plus steps a day.

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For reference, 2000 steps is approximately equal to 1 mile. So basically you got to walk about 5 miles a day. That's pretty difficult to do. But that's, again, if you want to get the same benefits of Hit in a similar timeframe, do you have to get 10,000 steps a day? No, but that should definitely be your goal.

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So all that, what are some of the benefits of list cardio? Because I know you all are probably wondering what are some of the benefits of list cardio as compared to Hit cardio? Well, I'm glad you asked because we have four big benefits of list cardio that we're going to be going through today. And so we're going to start off at the top with all my notes that I have here on the side. We're going to start off with number one, and that is improved cardiovascular health.

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Now, yes, you could arguably say that hip cardio also gives you improved cardiovascular health and that is true, it does because they're both cardio one is just a lot less intensive. They both do the same thing. Number two benefit is that you have increased endurance. Now, the increase of the endurance is not going to be as much as Hit necessarily because when you have the increased endurance with Hit, you can probably push yourself a little bit more with Hit, instead of doing what would usually be maybe a 1520 minutes workout. Usually with Hit, you can maybe lower the intensity by a smidgen and it maybe get yourself 25 to 30 minutes.

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Or maybe you keep the same intensity but take slightly longer rest periods in between each exercise that you do. So instead of doing a 40 515 split for a Hit workout means 45 seconds of work, 15 seconds of rest, you might do more like 35 seconds of work. And what is that? 25 seconds, I think is the math. Yes, 25 seconds of rest.

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Do something like that. That gives you an extra 10 seconds to just really get some deep breaths in before you hit it again. Something like that, you can go for a little bit longer, but list also gives you the same effect because again, now you're not going to be able to work at the super high heart rate ranges like Hit, but in terms of low intensity, steady state, you can walk for longer. You can be able to just maybe walk at a slightly increased pace than you normally would and not be as winded. So you do still get some increased endurance, but I like to call it more functional endurance because, yes, if you're training for Hit, then chances are you probably want to burn that fat off fast, or you're someone who just needs that kind of training for their kind of lifestyle.

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Whether you're a pro athlete, semi pro athlete, or something along those lines, you probably need something like Hit. But for the regular Joe Schmo like you and I were just trying to be generally more healthy here, list would work perfectly fine. Number three benefit of List is that it's low impact on your joints. I know my mother specifically, she doesn't have the best of knees, so I know when she does her workouts and everything, and she does her walking and everything, she can't really be doing crazy burpees and clapping, push ups and all these kind of things that are hard on the joints, especially as you get older. It's just generally not healthy to be doing a whole bunch of stuff on your joints anyway.

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So List cardio, by definition, with the Li in List is low intensity. So there's no burpees, there's no running, there's no jump roping, there's none of that. It's literally, just, like I said, as simple as walking. Hop on a treadmill, pop on your favorite podcast, and walk. In fact, you don't even need a treadmill.

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All you literally have to do is just set something on your watch or set up a timer. If you do pomodoro technique, for example, the 25 minutes of work, five minutes a break. During that five minutes of break, just go for a walk. If you're like me and you live in the Midwest where it's cold 13 months out of the year, that's fine. Walk around the house.

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In fact, it helps out more because now you're walking up and downstairs. Look at that. Assume you don't have a ranch house. Look at that. Now you basically have a Stairmaster.

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You don't have to pay anything. This is free. It's absolutely free. And then finally, the final benefit that I want to get out to is fat loss. I talked about this a little bit in the beginning, so I won't harp on this one too much.

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But over time, like I said with some of the research that has been shown, it has shown that List is actually beneficial towards fat loss simply because of the heart rate range that your heart is beating at. So the lower heart rate generally means that you're burning more fat and you're tapping into more fat stores as compared to that of glycogen. So because you're burning more fat at generally lower heart rate ranges, that means then what I'm literally telling you right now is that all you have to do is walk and you burn fat. Yeah, it's literally that simple. Not easy, but it's that simple.

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You walk more than you normally do and you burn fat. This is like the magic pill that everybody is always wondering, what is the magic fat loss pill that can solve all of my problems? Let me tell you, it's walking. It's just walking. That's all it is.

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It's literally walking. And again, I looked into some of the research that Dr. Mike Diamonds did. It's walking. So all these fat loss pills and this new fat loss, ignore it.

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Ignore it. Literally. Just stick to the tried and true stuff. Walking. That's it.

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But yeah, that's literally the benefits of list cardio. So before we head off this episode, going to go ahead and name off these four benefits one more time and then we'll go ahead and close this out. So benefit number one of those cardio is that you can have improved cardiovascular health. Number two is you can have increased endurance. Number three, low impact on the joints.

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And number four, yes, you can see some fat loss. And that is what I have for you this week, guys. Thank you so much for listening. But before you go, don't forget that if you like what you hear, don't be afraid to leave a rating and review, as it really does go a long way. There's also an email list if you guys want to sign up for that too.

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