Isn`t it sufficient to go on a diet if I want to lose weight ?
One must create a caloric deficit in order to lose weight, meaning that more calories must be spent than consumed on a daily basis. However, the deficit necessary for one pound of fat loss is 3500 calories. The activity that is necessary to burn 3500 calories is about 40 miles of jogging ! However, you should not focus on calories burned during exercise (very little !) but on calories burned as a result of exercise. For every pound of muscle that you build through Concept 10 10 training your body will burn about 70 extra calories per day, just by being there ! This means that if you could build 5-7 pounds of muscle you could burn up to 500 calories per day. In a week that amounts to 3500 calories. That is 40 miles worth of jogging without really running a single mile !
The average person loses about half a pound of muscle per year after age 25. This means that if you are over forty you most likely have 5 pound or more to re-build. This is the reason why your metabolism is so bad and it´s so hard to lose fat in the first place. This is a much more time-efficient and effective way to burn calories. And you don´t expose your knees to the 100 tons of force that the average jogger must withstand with every mile run.