Fastest Way to Lose Weight | Morning Cardio | Personal Trainer Burbank | Ballistic Body Fitness

Hey everyone, Scott Yonehiro with Ballistic Body Fitness here. Like I mentioned on the last video, I wanted to tell you my favorite time to do cardio to make sure that I’m digging deep into my fat stores, liberating that fat and really burning a lot of it off is going to be early in the morning on an empty stomach. Now you are going to find a lot of different views on that. Some might say to do slow go cardio for a long period of time like 45 minutes to 1 hour. And others might say high intensity interval training is the way to go. Well, I myself love high intensity interval training. And the best time to do it is first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. The way you want to do this cardio on an empty stomach is to wake up first thing in the morning and maybe have a little bit of coffee to help boost your metabolism and speed yourself up a little bit. Then head over to the gym and pick up your favorite cardio machine or a jump rope. In this case we have Marcia here, our fitness model and Ballistic Body Fitness trainer and we are going to show you an example of high intensity interval training. Now she’s using the Stairmaster over here which is a wickedly evil machine because it is a tough machine to master. And right now she is going at what is a very moderate pace which is a simple walk up the Stairmaster. Nothing too hard, she is able to maintain her form and you are going to want to do that for 2 -3 minutes. And then you are going to want to pick up the speed. When you pick up the speed, you are going to want to make it challenging maybe about 65 – 70 percent of what your max speed would be while still being able to keep perfect form. Do that for anywhere between 35 - 40 seconds up to a full minute so that you are really having to try hard and work hard and boost that metabolism and really start to pour that sweat on. Now after you do that for a good 45 – 60 seconds, You’re going to want to bring it right back down again in a controlled fashion so you are able to catch your breath, mellow out a little bit. Bring yourself back down to a calm heart rate for about another minute or two and then pick it right back up again. This time hold it a little faster at a higher rate for a little longer or a little shorter depending how fast you are going. You are going to want to zigzag that higher speed and lower speed back and forth by doing something that’s challenging yet manageable at the same time. This way you can do this work out for 20 to 30 minutes and it’s going to give you a much better fat burn than that slow go Cardio technique. Thank you very much, have a good one.