When it comes to cardio you should never restrict yourself to one machine or a specific duration. Mixing it up is not only great for your body, but it’s great for your mind. If you are looking for some variety to spice up your cardio program, check out this video from Craig Ballantyne, the creator of the Turbulence Training Program…

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LL Cool J has one of the best physiques in the music industry. His 40 year old body puts most 20 year old physiques to shame. So how does LL Cool J achieve 6 pack abs? A large part of his training incorporates 35 minutes of cardio several times each week.

I can hear you shouting at me already, “What, long boring cardio. I don’t want to do that!” Yep, that’s the voice of a brainwashed industry that is being constantly bombarded with emails from fat loss experts preaching that long duration cardio is the devil!

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Hello! Another awesome question…

Q: What is HIIT and how can you take action with it?

A: HIIT stands for High Intensity Interval Training. An ‘interval’ is ANY span of time, such as 30 sec., 1 min., 2 min., that you choose to perform an activity within and at a certain degree of intensity (low to high).

In our book, The Fit Chic, we recommend that you perform HIIT as your cardio component a couple of times each week. If you have a bike, outdoor or stationary, you can interval every 30 seconds. So first you would begin biking for 2 min. to warm up. Then you would pick up the pace so that you are really pushing yourself for 30 seconds (go all out here!), then you slow right down for 30 seconds, then increase for the following 30 sec…then decrease for the next 30 sec…see the pattern?

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