An estimated 50 million Americans have some type of allergy. In most people, allergies first appear during infancy or childhood and rank first among children’s chronic diseases.¹

A new paper published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has found a link between low vitamin D levels and the onset of allergies in children. The study of over 3,000 children concluded that among children with low or deficient levels of vitamin D, sensitivity to allergens was present in more than half of those for which they tested.² Not only do allergies cause itchy eyes, runny nose and headaches but they also add a level of discomfort and misery to a person’s life.

Even in a place like Florida where there is no shortage of vitamin D because of the sunny weather, there is a disconnect between children and their physical presence outside. There is no reason for a child to go outside because of the new technology today that keeps them occupied on the couch. That is not only leading to a startling deficiency in vitamin D, but also an alarming rate of childhood obesity and other chronic diseases. Caucasian skin produces approximately 10,000 IU vitamin D in response to 20 to 30 minutes of summer sun exposure. This is over 16 times higher than the US government’s recommendation of 600 IU per day.³

There are two types of this vitamin that you need to consider. Vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol) and D3 (cholecalciferol) both of which are good sources, but one of them is far better than the other. When sunlight hits your skin, D3 is absorbed far deeper into the body which is called bioavailability. Research shows that D2 (ergocalciferol) has lower bioactivity, poorer stability, and shorter duration of action, resulting in approximately 33% lower potency compared with vitamin D3.⁴ In other words, when supplementing with Vitamin D products, make sure you take high quality D3. Supplementation is safe for children, but the best source for them is natural sunlight aquired from being active outdoors.

Other Good News On Vitamin D For Those Looking To Lose Weight!

New research shows that vitamin D may help.  While vitamin D has gained acclaim for its anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties, researchers at the University of Southern California and McGill University recently discovered that insufficient vitamin D levels were also associated with increased fat levels.⁵ What’s more is that 59% of the study’s participants had insufficient amounts of vitamin D.

Are you and your children getting enough vitamin D? Here are ways to ensure that you are:

• Regularly get midday sun exposure in the late spring, summer, and early fall, exposing as much of the skin as possible for 20–30 minutes (being careful to never burn).Those with dark skin will need longer exposure time — up to six times longer
• Eat foods rich in vitamin d such as, eggs,  grass fed meat, and fatty fish.  Cod liver oil, mackerel, salmon and sardines are the best Vitamin D fish
• Take 5,000 IU’s of Vitamin D3, due to our natural deficiencies, per day for 2–3 months, especially during those months with less sunlight (amounts will very with age)

If you and your children are not taking all of these steps, then you are putting them and yourself at risk for a number of potential health problems and not just allergies. Don’t forget to nurture your body with one of the most readily available vitamins because you’re stuck inside and don’t eat properly. If you need an extra boost,which research shows most adults and children do, pick up Maximized Living’s vitamin D3 today.

A new study marks the first time that the number of chemicals to which pregnant women are exposed has been counted. Virtually all pregnant women in the U.S. carry multiple chemicals in their bodies. This chemical load includes some banned since the 1970′s, as well as others used in common products such as non-stick cookware, processed foods and personal care products.

Researchers analyzed data for more than 160 chemicals and detected polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides, perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), phenols, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and perchlorate in 99 to 100 percent of pregnant women.¹

Chronic childhood diseases linked to exposure to toxic chemicals in the environment have been surging upward, costing the U.S. almost fifty-five billion dollars a year. There are three thousand high-volume chemicals used today; for roughly half, there is no basic toxicity information publicly available. For the past six to eight years, national surveys have found these chemicals present in the blood and urine of practically everyone in the U.S.² If a baby is exposed to numerous toxic compounds in utero, changes may occur that either directly cause cancer, or lengthen the period of sensitivity to carcinogens, therefore making the child more susceptible to cancer, and other diseases, later in life.

Babies today, are actually born at considerable risk due to the toxic load of their mothers. One study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found that blood samples from newborns contained an average of 287 toxins, including mercury, fire retardants, pesticides, and Teflon chemicals. 180 of those toxins cause cancer in humans or animals, 217 are toxic to your brain and nervous system, 208 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests.³

About seventy-five thousand chemicals are regularly manufactured and imported by U.S. industries, three thousand of which are high-volume chemicals, meaning over one million pounds per year are produced. In short, chemicals are virtually everywhere, and we’re all exposed, pregnant women being no exception. It’s disturbing to know that humans are being bombarded with toxins at all, but it’s even more concerning when it’s revealed just how extensive the exposure is to those carrying our most precious cargo.

Toxicity reveals another piece of the autism puzzle.   On January 31, 2011, researchers at the International Child Development Resource Center reported that autistic children showed a five hundred percent increase in mitochondrial dysfunction compared to children without autism. Mitochondria, the “powerhouse” of your cells, generate the ATP necessary for cellular signaling and growth, processes that must take place in order for you to function properly and express health.⁴ What’s causing this mitochondrial damage linked with autism?  “Toxins, oxidative stress, inflammation, and decreased levels of antioxidants,” says Dr. Daniel Rossignol, M.D., the study’s head researcher.⁵

So what is a practical way to reduce this toxic load? Use glass containers for food, use natural cleaning products, eat organic pesticide free produce, buy natural hygiene products, drink filtered or bottled water, limit the use of medications and vaccines as much as possible due to the toxic ingredients, and get adjusted by your chiropractor.

Because these newer chemicals cannot be metabolized by your body, it’s also necessary to do something every day to boost the body’s own detoxifying pathways and processes.  The body’s own natural detoxifying agent is glutathione.  Gluthione is also a super anti-oxidant that reduces oxidative stress and inflammation in the body.

Under the kind of intense exposure you get today, you get what’s called “glutathione wasting.”  For example, children with autism were shown to have only fifty percent of the normal level of glutathione in their blood stream.  To rebuild glutathione and support your cells, we’ve made available Daily Detox.  You’ll need this or similar products to truly fend off today’s toxic onslaught.

As all function and detoxification is ultimately under control of the central nervous system, your Maximized Living doctor will also recommend an evaluation of your spine and nervous system to get the effects of a toxic world under control.

Schedule an appointment for you and your family on Monday February 14th for our ValenSpine’s Patient Appreciation Day evaluation.

It’s a new year.  January calls many back to a workout routine for the first time in months.  On average only one in three Americans exercise regularly, but this month that number annually increases.¹ So to help you this year, remember this:  When you exercise may have as much to do with your results and reaching your goals as much as anything else.

Fact: Exercising first thing in the morning gives optimal benefit!

There are two huge benefits of exercising first thing in the morning:

1. It gets done!  Obstacles get in the way as the day goes on, and many put off exercise for other responsibilities.

2. The benefits of exercising before your first meal of the day are numerous.

According to a recent study published in the Journal of Physiology, working out on an empty stomach puts your body at a huge advantage. The report concluded that participants who exercised in a fasting state, or with no food, helped them burn fat and become more resistant to weight gain.  Other participants of the study did not see the same results.  In fact, those who ate a carbohydrate rich breakfast and exercised later actually gained weight instead of becoming weight loss resistant.²

One of the explanations for how this fat burning process occurs involves your nerve system.  More specifically, your sympathetic nerve system controls all fat burning.  The sympathetic nerve system is activated by exercise and lack of food. Additionally, it’s been shown that working out this way will improve the secretion of good hormones – just like our Maximized Living type of exercise is designed to already do.

A small percentage of people may experience negative symptoms including dizziness, nausea, or fatigue from working out on an empty stomach. When starting this routine, it may be necessary to eat something small before a workout.

Along with exercising first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, the right type of exercise is just as important.  Start exercising smarter, not longer.  Maximized Living doctors are trained in cutting edge information on the right type of exercise – pure surge training, also known as burst training.  Not only is it the right type of exercise to lose weight, it also takes literally minutes to do.

Exercising and the right type of exercise routine is only one piece of the puzzle when losing weight.  Register for the upcoming Maximized Living Makeover on January 15th in your area to learn more about this type of exercise.  You can also go to your Maxinized Living doctor’s website and watch about Surge Training.

Source: Maximized Living Blog

We don’t use the word “sick” in our ML homes or offices. It is a bad label. You’re not a victim. If you’re not feeling well, don’t call yourself the victim of disease. Take responsibility for whatever caused you to get into that state, make the necessary changes, and allow your body to heal itself.

We had a patient who came to us absolutely certain she was stuck with all of her health problems. She felt powerless against her host of diagnoses. There was lupus, migraines, fibromyalgia, and related hormonal issues. Yet there was a clear connection between her lack of commitment to being well and the symptoms she was experiencing.

I encouraged her that she could heal. But, she really believed in her medical diagnosis. She really believed she was “sick.” Finally I said, “If I put my head on your body and as a result started treating your body like it should be treated, what would happen?” She got it. She immediately said, “I would get well.” She took responsibility, dropped the victim mentality, and no longer considered herself damaged goods. The discipline she needed quickly followed.

As you look at our weekly lifestyle recommendations, consider the need to renew your mind daily.  You’re valuable. Why would you treat yourself any differently than you would a valuable race horse, sports car, or professional athlete?  How would you feed something that complex with that much worth?  Would you maintain them?  Manage them well?  Do all you can to make sure they perform at their peak?  Of course you would!  You wouldn’t want to ruin something so valuable in this market!

By giving you 5 critical “Essentials” for living, we’re showing you a path that makes your body a winner.  We don’t say “sick” – we say, “expressing symptoms.”  This makes you ask the question, “What can I do to get better?” or “How can I boost my immunity to guard myself from illness in the future?”  A much more powerful position to take than, “My darn four year old keeps bringing bacteria back from pre-school,” or “We’re playing pass the virus at our house.”

Our families of committed patients rarely struggle with illness.  If they do, they get back to the 5 Essentials:

#1 – Get your mind right about restoring health instead of ‘treating” symptoms with     even more hazardous drugs
#2 – Get adjusted – extra if necessary
#3 – Get back to quality foods that heal instead of man made foods that cause congestion
#4 – Get moving
#5 – Consider what toxins – sugars, caffeine, alcohol, cleaners, medications, etc., may have helped to lower immunity and create too heavy a toxic burden

Your body is the actual most valuable item you have in challenging, chaotic times like these.  Invest in it, honor it, value it, and it will give you the return you’re looking for.  Fight for your health so you don’t end up fighting for your life!

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by Dr. Ben Lerner

After watching our videos, reading our blogs, or going to one of our doctors you may view your situation to be different or too tough to get out of.  You might say, “Great Dr. Ben, this might work for some people, but you don’t understand my situation. Mine is hopeless!”

Put your hand on your chest.  Feel your heart beating.  Your faith might be shaky right now, but that beating heart is a sign that you still have something special you can do. I personally also feel it means that God still has you here for a reason.

As someone who wrestled competitively for nineteen years, I understand completely what it’s like to be caught in a dangerous, painful condition from which it appears impossible to wriggle free. If you’re tired enough, hurting enough, behind by enough points, and have been working hard to no avail for a long enough time, the thought of success can all but completely diminish. Winning can even cease to be a dream. In an exhausted, unmotivated, painful state, all that may seem reasonable at that point are antidepressants, alcohol, or a whole lot of sugar—but there is a much better, less harmful way.

In wrestling there are certain positions or “holds” that you never want to find yourself in. Getting caught in a “cradle,” a “guillotine,” a “double chicken wing,” or thrown on your back in a “headlock” are all potentially dangerous, match-ending states of affairs. In fact, if your opponent is really good, it can seem like there’s no way out and a feeling of discouragement, despair, and that “all is lost” can come over you pretty quickly. On the contrary, the truth is there’s always a way out. That’s why many people have gotten out of these holds, fought off their back and come back to win the match. These winners knew something very important: they knew how to counter.

As boxed in as you may feel now, as much as you may feel it’s over, and that you’re at the end of your rope, don’t quit! Instead, counter. The counter is how you escape and come back from a compromising position not only in a wrestling match, but in life’s wrestling matches.

Three Steps to Counter:

1. Change Your Position

You have to be capable of seeing outside of your box of frustration and become aware of your blind spots. Death is in the blind spots. You can fit an invisible 18-wheel truck in one. In the world of success, the illiterate are not people who can’t read or write, they are those who cannot think, unlearn, and relearn. The things you think are true often aren’t true at all.

The Number One way to failure and to completely stop any forward progress is the illusion and delusion that you already know. For example, families in the United States have the worst health of any other families in the world. What I’ve found is that Maximized Living families have the best health of anyone in the world. Yet people keep being scared or hypnotized into following the medical model of the United States. Think, unlearn, relearn, and ask yourself: “If both children and adults continue to suffer with so much disease and we constantly keep facing new ones, then is what you believe and have been told to believe about lifestyle and healthcare up to this point true?” The answer is, “Obviously not!”

2. Pray for Strength

A famous quote from the depression said, “Whenever I prayed to God to get me a chicken, I never got a chicken. But, when I prayed for God to give me the strength to catch a chicken, I always got me a chicken.”
To hit a counter, you have to get mad instead of sad. Turn failure and frustration into tackling fuel. Many who have done this and were previously saying, “It’s over” have found out that they had more strength then they believed they had. Never forget: your mind always quits before the body, and God’s power is in endless supply.

3. Purpose You Would Die For

When you first start wrestling, you stink at it and need to know a lot of counters. When I asked my coach how to get out of some of the more difficult positions, he said, “If you want to get out, it’s got to be like you’re a drowning man trying to come up for air.” You’ve got to want it that bad!
How bad do you want to win for God, your family, and to preserve your own life?

Our Maximized Living doctors are here to help coach you to victory, but you’ve got to want it bad enough. I think this is what Martin Luther King meant when he said, “… you develop the inner conviction that some things are so precious, that there are some things so dear, some things so eternally worthwhile, that they are worth dying for. If an individual has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.”¹
And that’s why I believe Albert Einstein said, “A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”²

² http://hubpages.com/hub/Free-Quotes

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The definition of health is much different than what the media often presents to us.  Check out the Maximized Video below to learn a bit more about what real health is.

There’s a lot more, but we can’t share it all at once!  Check out our Maximized Living Website!

• One-half of all working Americans admit to having back pain symptoms each year. (2)
• Back pain is one of the most common reasons for missed work. In fact, back pain is the second most common reason for visits to the doctor’s office, outnumbered only by upper-respiratory infections.
• Most cases of back pain are mechanical or non-organic-meaning they are not caused by serious conditions, such as inflammatory arthritis, infection, fracture or cancer.
• Americans spend at least $50 Billion each year on back pain-and that’s just for the more easily identified costs. (3)
• Experts estimate that as many as 80% of the population will experience a back problem at some time in our lives. (4)

Unfortunately, the average person or medical physician treats back pain with over the counter or prescription medications.  While these drugs may or may not help with pain short term, in the long term there are many, many common and serious risks.

If you have heart disease, it has always been considered incredibly risky to take pain relieving drugs.  Now, however, the July, 2010 issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes showed that healthy people without heart concerns have a radically greater chance of all cardiovascular disease, fatal or non-fatal stroke than

those not taking these drugs.

Most importantly, no drug gets to the cause of back or any pain.  Back pain is nearly always biomechanical in nature.  If these biomechanics aren’t corrected, covering symptoms with drugs only allows the problem to go on unnoticed and get worse.  Like leaving or ignoring breaks squealing or red lights shining in your car, you’re allowing dysfunction to continue and escalate to a full blow out.

There are doctors that not only treat symptoms, but correct biomechanical disorders actually correcting the problem. You not only feel better, you function right.  Since the spine controls all function in the body, not only are you out of pain – you’re far healthier.

Maximized Living doctors are trained in spinal correction.  Follow their in-office and home recommendations and become the small % of the population without pain and on no pain-relievers.

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By Dr. Ben Lerner and Megan Rall

One of the most POWERFUL aspects of Maximized Living is that it helps you totally transform how you view and understand your health.  Let me give you an example:

Think about your car.  Imagine if all you were ever told about your car were things like “it does not matter what kind of gas you use”  or “oil changes are a waste of money”  and “don’t pay attention to any of those WARNING lights!”  Are you getting the idea?  You would then end up DESTROYING your car LONG before it was intended.  Some basic Prevention and WELLNESS would have saved you thousands of dollars and maybe even your life, depending where the car DIED!

So how does this relate to you, your life, your health and Maximized Living?  Well, you have a very similar choice. Many of us have been raised in a culture that has said “eat whatever you want” or “exercise is hard” or “just take a pill for that!”  This type of advice has lead to many, many bad and deadly decisions and lifestyles.

Maximized Living and Maximized Living Doctors strive to provide you the absolute best, cutting edge, effective and usable information regarding health, wellness and recovery from disease.

So let’s look at a real life example: A “typical American family”  has 2 parents that are obese, over half of them are on at least 1 medication, 1 of their 3 children is obese, many have been diagnosed with learning or behavioral “diseases” and many of them are even medicated.  They are eating the typical American diet of bad fats, LOADS of SUGAR and tons of chemicals, colorings, and preservatives.  And this are just the “typical families.”  They have been sold a lie.  They are not INVESTING in health.  They are waiting to PAY FOR DISEASE.

Sometimes people look at “wellness” or even Maximized Living as a COST.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  It is a choice on how you are going to care for your “car” or HEALTH.  As all of you know our “sick care” costs are rising every year and many times by double digit percentages.  You literally cannot afford to go on like this.  So what are the options?  Well in the USA the leading cause of bankruptcy is MEDICAL COSTS.   AND MOST OF THEM WERE INSURED!

The only solution that makes any sense is INVESTING in health.  Maximized Living offices across North America have countless examples of families literally saving tens of thousands of dollars a year and countless pain and suffering by understanding exactly what has been explained here.  They invest a couple of thousand a year in health now and will save tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands later.  And then, there is the added bonus of NOT DYING!

Linda Bacon, Ph.D, dreads swimsuit season, but not because she has anything against the beach.

Instead, the California-based nutritionist fears what the season brings: scores of otherwise health-conscious citizens who subject themselves to deprivation diets (like the Master Cleanse) or intense exercise regimens, often in blazing hot weather, to look slimmer in revealing clothes.

Many unwittingly end up harming their health — and possibly even their hearts.

“Early June and January are the two times of year people do crazy, desperate things to get thin fast,” says Bacon, a nutrition professor at the City College of San Francisco, California, and the author of “Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight.”

“They go on fasts, yo-yo diets, detox programs, and ‘cleanses’ without realizing that there are serious consequences to weight loss and nutrient restriction.”

That crash dieting doesn’t work and can be dangerous is a message that gets lost in the national clamor over rising rates of overweight and obesity.

Thinking of trying a lemonade fast or cabbage soup diet? Here’s what to keep in mind if fitting into your skinny jeans or your Speedo is high on your summer agenda.

Crash diets may harm your heart

Cardiologist Isadore Rosenfeld, MD, a professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, in New York City, and author of the forthcoming “Doctor of the Heart: A Life in Medicine,” opposes crash diets (less than 1,200 calories a day) and detox plans like the Master Cleanse.

The Master Cleanse involves consuming a mixture of water, lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper — and nothing else — for several days.

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He says these very low-calorie regimens are based on the false theory that the body needs help eliminating waste.

Research suggests rapid weight loss can slow your metabolism, leading to future weight gain, and deprive your body of essential nutrients. What’s more, crash diets can weaken your immune system and increase your risk of dehydration, heart palpitations, and cardiac stress.

“A crash diet once won’t hurt your heart,” Dr. Rosenfeld says. “But crash dieting repeatedly increases the risk of heart attacks.”

Bacon adds that long-term calorie-cutting can eventually lead to heart muscle loss. “Yo-yo dieting can also damage your blood vessels. All that shrinking and growing causes micro tears that create a setup for atherosclerosis and other types of heart disease,” she says.

Chip Stinchfield, a 55-year-old shop owner in New Canaan, Connecticut, has experienced the cardiac effects of dieting firsthand. On the advice of friends, he went on a Master Cleanse for days and exercised vigorously. Another time he ate nothing but cottage cheese, beets, and peanut butter. Both were “quick, easy fixes” that helped him drop up to 10 pounds fast.

But both diets also gave him shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and “the feeling like I was going to have a heart attack.”

Under pressure from his family, who thought his dieting might disable or kill him — like many extreme dieters, Stinchfield kept his doctor in the dark about his radical habits — he eventually went back to sensible eating.

Beware of fad diets

Experts have known for decades that extended crash diets can be dangerous — especially when the diets become a fad.

In the late 1970s, an osteopath named Robert Linn published “The Last Chance Diet,” a best seller that advocated a miraculous “liquid protein diet.” Following the lead of their favorite celebrities, millions of people bought quarts of Dr. Linn’s liquid formula and embraced the diet (or one of many copycat versions), averaging just 300 to 400 calories a day.

The diet seemed to work wonders — some people reported losing as many as 10 pounds a week on the formula. But then the news of sudden deaths began to trickle in.

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An investigation led by the Food and Drug Administration turned up nearly 60 deaths among liquid dieters. Although some of the deaths occurred in people with underlying diseases such as atherosclerosis (and therefore could have been coincidental), government researchers who examined otherwise healthy dieters who died of ventricular arrhythmias found that the pattern of deaths suggested “the effects of protein-calorie malnutrition on the heart,” including atrophy of the heart muscle.

Experts have since tried to pinpoint the dangers of crash diets (technically known as “very low calorie” diets). Shortages of potassium, magnesium, and copper have been suggested as possible causes of the arrhythmias seen in crash dieters, and studies have also found that the diets can cause a drop in blood pressure and sodium depletion.

The true extent of the risk posed by crash diets is unclear, however. Much of the research has been conducted in obese people — a population that can actually benefit from these extreme diets — and in most studies the health of the participants is carefully monitored.

Experts stress that very-low-calorie diets should only be followed with a doctor’s supervision. But crash dieters are more likely to consult their friends than a doctor — which can get them into trouble.

Brooke Robertson, 23, learned these lessons the hard way. Last spring the Auckland, New Zealand, mom reportedly suffered a minor heart attack after she lost 100 pounds on a diet of Red Bull and the occasional fistful of dry cereal.

Despite the international publicity, Bacon doesn’t think desperate dieters will consider Robertson a cautionary tale. “There’s absolutely no benefit to fasting or detoxing,” she says. “Extreme diets are simply bad for you and they don’t work. But every year people engage in magical thinking.”

How to lose weight — safely

If you’re overweight, slimming down is critical for your overall health. Even moderate weight loss can lower your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer.

But it’s important to lose weight safely, which usually means slowly: Most experts recommend dropping just 1 to 2 pounds a week. And despite what some brand-name diets claim, the best way to do so is to exercise regularly and stick to a diet that limits saturated fat and sugars and emphasizes fruits and vegetables, lean meats and fish, and whole grains.

“The key to losing weight is a combination of diet and exercise,” says Dr. Rosenfeld. “One alone will not do it.”

There are three types of exercise:

• Strength/Resistance Training
• Cardio/Aerobic Training
• Flexibility/Stability

Strength/Resistance Training

The primary hormone response invoked by strength and resistance training is elevated levels of Human Growth Hormone. This hormone is essential for fat mobilization. It also signals fat burning enzymes and aids in muscle mass development. HGH levels are raised most during sleep, in direct proportion to exercise intensity during your workout.

Strength training will improve your glucose tolerance and increase insulin receptor sensitivity. This will help your body become a fat burner, rather than a sugar burner. This type of exercise also creates a bigger metabolic after burn than aerobic training, while also increasing fat free muscle, bone density and metabolism.

Cardio/Aerobic Training

There are many benefits associated with cardio and aerobic training, but also many negatives. Cardio training will lower your resting heart rate, lower blood pressure, keep your brain young by increasing circulation to the brain and aids in detoxification by stimulating the lymphatic system.

But long distance cardio training decreases testosterone levels, decreases the immune system post exercise, and raises stress hormone levels (cortisol). Increased levels of cortisol stimulate the appetite, will increase fat storing and slow down or inhibit exercise recovery.

So how do we get the benefits without the negatives? Burst train to burn fat.

What is Surge Training?

Surge training involves exercising at 90%-100% of your maximum effort for 30-60 seconds in order to burn your body’s stored sugar (glycogen), followed by 30-60 seconds of low impact for recovery. This causes your body to burn fat for the next 36 hours to replace your body’s vital energy (glycogen) stores.

You only need to do 4-6 sets of 30-60 second bursts 3 times a week to see marked changes and improvements. More is not always better–make sure you have days of rest.