Dear Dan, I bought and read the e-book version of this yesterday, on the strength of Charles' recommendation and the promotional information at Dr. Sears' web site.
I can say that it does sound entirely plausible. His main thesis is that in order to make your body build more heart, lung, and muscle capacity you need to challenge it with varied and progressive intense loads of brief duration that are beyond our aerobic capacity. He explains that long duration low intensity exercise causes the body to optimize itself for the greatest efficiency under that form of stress. Thus you will tend to lose reserve or "extra" heart, lung, and muscle strength beyond what's needed for your usual workout. Instead, he advocates short bursts of activity that create an oxygen debt, separated by recovery intervals, and gathered into workouts that are long enough to burn your reserves of ATP, glucose and glycogen, but *not* long enough to engage your fat metabolism. Rather than adapting by storing up new fat for the next overly long low intensity workout, the body now uses its fat stores to rebuild the stock of immediately available energy in preparation for the next burst of activity. He describes how to use his strategy with virtually any form of exercise, from calesthenics, rebounding and various machines, to running, biking, and swimming, so it is extremely flexible. It is totally adaptable to *ANY* level of fitness and ability. He warns us not to do any program unchanged for more than a few weeks. He discourages weight training, but does have tailored suggestions for *strength* training, along with other optimizations for cardiac, pulmonary and weight loss targets. It's an interesting idea for me, since I don't have the desire, energy or focus to do any sort of long workout, but I *am* willing to do ten minutes a day on the rebounder, alternating between "health bounce" warmup and recovery periods and short sprints of more strenuous moves. Charles, can you say what you've been doing with it so far? I'd be interested in any results you've begun to see. Hope that helps, Dan. Be well, Mike D. > How about giving us a generalized description of the techniques used in > this program? I hate buying "a pig in a poke." > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Marcus [mailto:tansta...@libertytrek.org] > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:09 AM > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > Subject: CS>Re: Carb Blockers ... > If anyone wants to learn why they plateau when doing any weight-loss > regimen, and why their weight always comes back, then do yourself a > favor and learn why/how what you have been told all your life about > 'cardio' and 'aerobics' is killing you - but more importantly, how you > can experience dramatic improvements by making some simple changes in > how you exercise. Moreover, 9 times out of 10, you'll end up exercising > *far* *less* than you were before. > > And no, I am not affiliated with this program in any way, shape or form > - I'm just an extremely overjoyed student... > > And no, I'm not discounting diet. What you eat is also very important - > but without proper exercise, you can do everything right diet-wise and > *still* *fail* *to* *attain* *your* *goals*. > > Click the following link, and read - but please don't stop just because > it starts out talking about lung power... it is so much more than that, > as you will see in the few minutes it takes you to read it. > > http://www.alsearsmd.com/pace/ [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
