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14 June 2010
Turbulence Training
May
Revolutionise How You View Exercise:
Is It Really As Effective As It Could Be?
Susan Rodriguez
Now is a good time to take a detached step back and evaluate your workout honestly. If you're a veteran gym visitor, are you discovering you're not getting the results you expect? Then you need to consider Turbulence Training, developed by Craig Ballantyne.
Sometimes, going back to the basics works wonders. No doubt you've been exercising, watching what you eat and careful just what kind of food goes into your body.
After all, you're serious about your weight loss, fat burning goals. It's a good idea every so often to just step back from your daily routine and review what you're doing -- just to ensure you're still on track.
It's also good to check out the latest development in the fields of nutrition and exercise. And this is where Ballantyne comes in. As a response to the increasing demands on his time, as well as the need to stay fit, Turbulence Training was born.
Be prepared to take all the rules you knew about exercise and toss them out the kitchen window. Craig Ballantyne has developed an approach to exercise that promises to cut your workout in half -- and still give you results you and everyone else will take a double look at.
"It's about getting the most fat loss results," he said recently, "in the least amount of workout time." Who wouldn't like that? We're just too busy to perform a long drawn out body building routine and try to keep an hour-long cardio session.
Turbulence Training, according its developer, is based on two major premises. The first is that interval training is good -- and in some cases better -- than a slow cardio. And its benefit is it takes only half the time to do.
The second is that moderately-heavy strength training is actually better for sculpting your body and boosting your metabolism than the light variety.
Turbulence Training, Ballantyne explains, "cuts your exercise time in half." That means you can "get more results in only three 45-minute sessions per week" than most people get in five of strength training and cardio combined.
And what's most gratifying is that the results are noticeable very quickly. Not only that, but this exciting form of exercise requires no special, expensive equipment. You need nothing beyond a bench, an exercise ball, dumbbells and your own body weight.
Ballantyne has taken great care to design the program so that everyone from the novice just entering the gym for the first time to the veteran athlete has no trouble working the routine. In fact, he calls Turbulence Training the program is "built for life."
Here's a quick rundown of the set as outlined by Ballantyne himself in a recent interview.
1. The Warm-Up
Three body weights are used and performed in a circuit. "This is a much better way to prepare for training than by walking slowly on a treadmill," Ballantyne says.
2. The Strength-Training Supersets
Here you've got some flexibility. It can be as little as on brilliant superset if you're scrunched for time or up to four supersets if you've got 30 minutes to spare.
3. Intervals
Ten to 20 minutes of bodyweight circuits, stationary bicycle intervals or even running -- the treadmill or outside -- is all it takes.
Want to learn more about Turbulence Training and how it can directly aid you in burning fat and building muscle? Then click here
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