Inefficiency is the Key To Rapid Fat Loss

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So here’s the thing…when you’re training to burn fat, efficient is the LAST thing you want to be. Now…don’t look at me like that. Allow me to explain…

Let me set the stage for you…you began your fat-loss training and all the weight training exercises were new and tough. All the cardio training was challenging. The diet part was tough. Yet you started losing fat VERY fast.

Then you started getting comfortable with the exercises – you learned them and the training techniques, you got really good at the cardio training and could really power through it. Even the diet part of it was getting easier.

Now, you would think with things going this well (your training and eating actually improving as you were going) that your fat loss would actually be accelerated.

But then things started to slow down.

You’re training just as hard. The cardio is tough but you’ve found your stride with it. The diet part is going well.

Is your metabolism slowing down? You take a few days off and eat more to try and reset your metabolism and then jump back in but things still aren’t moving.

What now?

Time to go back to the drawing board and quite literally go back to when you were BAD at things!

Because when you were BAD at things, everything you did took more energy. It was, plain and simple, inefficient. And in that inefficiency, you burned a LOT more calories…getting the basic idea now?

Let’s take running as an example as this is a very visual thing. Look at two people…one is a first-time jogger, trying to get into shape. The other is a very experienced runner.

Let’s also assume those two people weigh exactly the same amount so they SHOULD be burning the same calories when they move the same distance, right?

But when you see the poor guy plodding his way down the road, hardly lifting his feet off the ground and you see the OTHER guy floating past him, who do you think is burning more calories and challenging their body to a greater degree?

The guy who is very inefficient is driving his metabolism much faster than the experienced runner, even though the experienced runner is probably going 3 or 4 times faster!

So here’s the lesson. When fat loss starts to diminish, you don’t always need to work harder at the things you’re already doing…you may just need to do something completely and utterly different!

Let’s say you’re used to doing barbell bench press for chest and rarely ever do dips. Even if you push yourself hard on the bench press, what do you think will get you revved up more…dips or bench press? You’ll be so not used to doing dips that your body will have to work harder just to do the exercise.

Then when you get too good at dips, switch to dumbbell bench press. Keep doing things you’re NOT good at!

You want to really lose fat? Construct a program based on exercises you are TERRIBLE at or hardly ever do (maybe because you’re terrible at them).

You may have to use a lot less weight but I can promise, you’ll kick your metabolism into gear far more than when you cruise through even tough sets of exercises you ARE good at.

Try a workout based on dips, front squats, barbell rows, hang clean and press, and stiff-legged deadlifts.

Or if you’re good at those, go with exercises you’re NOT good at. Force yourself to do the exercises until you do get good at them, then move on to something else.

When it comes to cardio training, do you do interval training on the treadmill? Get out to a soccer field or baseball diamond and do sprints there instead. Kick butt on the stair machine? Try the real stairs and see what happens! Or, even better, do something TOTALLY different like swimming.

I think you’re getting the general idea…when the body gets really good at something, it gets lazy and gets very efficient at it. It uses as little energy as it can and WILL use very little energy because it IS so efficient.

It might be tough on the ego, but by working with exercises you’re not good at, you’ll actually be speeding up your fat loss significantly.

And, as a bonus, you might just get good at exercises you used to stink at!

Now, when it comes to programs, you need a fat-loss program geared towards keeping you inefficient, where the training and eating are constantly changing, never allowing your body to get accustomed to (or efficient at!) really any of it. This not only gets you better results, it keeps things interesting and challenging.

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