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In last Tuesday’s THB, I introduced you to PACE®, Dr. Al Sears’ “native fitness” program. It’s a one-of-a-kind exercise plan designed around short bursts of intense exertion that mimic the demands placed on our ancient ancestors.
What’s so extraordinary about PACE® is that it totally contradicts modern exercise advice. And that’s a good thing, because as Dr. Sears says, “Practice these misconceived notions long enough and they will further rob you of the native fitness you were built to enjoy.”
Take “fat burning” for instance. Many “experts” tell you that cardio is essential to burn off your body fat and get lean. But the fact is, when you burn fat while exercising, it signals your body that you used up fat, so your body will make more for the next time you exercise!
That’s a fact that most fitness trainers don’t even seem to know! And it’s so important, I’ll say it again.
Your body becomes efficient at building and preserving fat for a continuous mid-level cardio workout in which you burn 55% of your energy from fat. While your body is busy preserving fat, it sacrifices muscle and lean tissue from your internal organs.
But that doesn’t happen with PACE® because the high-intensity, short-burst exercises send a totally different signal to your body. Your body is never trained to store fat because you’re burning carbs instead of fat in short bursts of exercise.
And this brings me to another good point. The most important changes occur after, not during, your workout session. With the short-interval PACE® program, your body maximizes fat “after burn” while replenishing the carbs you burned during your workout —and the fat disappears for good!
Here’s the proof.
Researchers at Laval University in Quebec divided participants into two groups: long-duration and repeated short-duration exercisers. They had the long-duration group cycle 45 minutes without interruption. The short-term interval group cycled in numerous short bursts of 15-90 seconds, while resting in between.
The long duration group burned twice as many calories, so you would assume they would burn more fat. However, when the researchers recorded their body composition measurements, the interval group showed that they lost the most fat.
In fact, the interval group lost 9 times more fat than the endurance group for every calorie burned. Doesn’t this defy the laws of physics? No, it just illustrates that exercise continues to affect your metabolism after you stop. The short bursts stimulated a greater after burn and that resulted in fat loss.
And that brings me to…
Exercise Like Your Life Depended On It!
Having quick access to extra “turbo” power is what kept our caveman ancestors alive in their native environment. (They ate their food or their food ate them!) In modern man, this reserve capacity is sadly lacking. Part of the reason is that we’ve been told not to exceed our aerobic “threshold’ when we exercise —that’s the point when our anaerobic pathways kick in and we pant as we exercise.
But this advice doesn’t help you one bit. Only by exceeding aerobic capacity will your lung strength increase. You must create an oxygen debt through high-intensity workouts to improve lung volume and raise the amount of oxygen you can produce.
And that’s what PACE® accomplishes. It challenges you to exercise at a pace you can’t sustain for more than a short period. Over time, your body adapts to the challenge by increasing its lung volume and power. That’s the turbo power you need.
In my next PACE® brief, I’ll dispel the lactic acid fallacy that’s been circulating in fitness circles for far too long.
Are Your Lungs Dying?
If you do nothing about it, the cells in your lungs are dying off faster than you replace them. By the time you’re fifty, 40% of your lung capacity will be gone! This will rob you of your energy and strength. And it makes you an easy target for chronic disease…
I’m Dr. Al Sears and I’ve seen thousands of my own patients boost their lungpower and reverse disease. The technique I give them is so revolutionary, the US Patent Office recently trademarked it!
In just minutes a day you’ll get back the lungpower of a 20-year-old. And that extra power means:
- Never taking a sick day, or need an afternoon nap…
- Bouncing up the stairs instead of waiting for the elevator…
- Adding health-packed years to your life…
All that, and you don’t have to change your diet or spend hours at the gym. It’s backed up by science and fully guaranteed! To find out how you can get the lungpower of a 20-year-old click here.
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Great Researched article.
Folowing a similiar pattern I have lost 100lbs within one year and my WASTE ( waist line ) moved from 46 to 32.
This morning I walked 1.5 miles in 27 mins. previously 45 Mins. I got to the library before the bus.
I will forward this several of exercise fanatics.
lallo badall
Entered: September 29th, 2009 at 7:43 am. PermalinkOk, my comment is that I really enjoy reading your articles BUT whatever you send always seems to be to SELL me something. Most alternative practioners talk about how the doctors and pharmacudicals are only after our money and not really interested in our ‘real’ health but I’m beginning to think the same thing about all the alternative newsletters I get. Yes, they say there are better ways but it seems to always end up the same way, ‘If you want to know the better way’ you have to either pay for it or do without. I’m 70 years old and trying to stay healthy without meds but I’m on SS and if you know anything about SS there is not enough money to do much with it. It gets very discouraging to keep getting stuff that sounds good but I can’t do anything about it. Why don’t you start a newsletter for seniors that gives us advise about keeping healthy without the pressure of having to pay for it or giving us special discounts, or even coming up with a vit/min program that has all the basic stuff seniors generally need at a price we can afford without sending notices about one thing for the eyes another for the brain, another for the heart and on and on and each one costing 39+ s&h ad infinitum! I’m sure Dr. Sears has no lack and our little bit of money is a drop in his bucket that he wouldn’t even miss if he were a little more generous by giving us his ‘good’ advise free once in a while. I like him but he never seems to send any advise without asking for us to pay for it ultimately. Thanks for letting me air out my grievance, I hope HE GETS IT and it’s not automatically deleted. Sincerely, Niurka
Entered: September 29th, 2009 at 8:06 am. PermalinkHi,
Entered: September 29th, 2009 at 8:27 am. PermalinkI must say that I agree with Niurka. The subscription offer says that the articles are free, but they are not articles. They are ads, and ads should be free. This is not an offer that helps anyone but the company running the newsletter.
Sorry, but I have better things to do than read these ads.
Anne
its v usefull information from ur side,
Entered: September 29th, 2009 at 9:23 am. PermalinkThanks
feedback on dr. sears..
Entered: September 29th, 2009 at 10:15 am. Permalinkyou know what i value most about you ?unlike most other doctors, who only communicate with us when they want us to buy, buy their products, you always provide good helpfull information, which doesnt always translate into an order,(normally with a hurry, hurry tone, or else youl miss the boat sort of approach).
you also give us interestng tips. even the well known doctors are sounding more and more like the mainsstream doctors where its only about the mighty buck. i appreciate the articles, tripos up the amazon and your findings..these i find invaluable. when you “give” you always receive.
many thanks! i did buy your pace programme and couple of other things over the years.
kind regards !
glen kasker cape town south africa
outstanding
it gives the reader a basis upon which to build an exercise program of our very own, including PACE. but also for all movement and breaks throughout the day
the way we use our total energy throughout the day, 24/7, is crucial to all aspects of our physiological well-being–which of course supports all organ and brain and nervous system activity–as well as sleep and other breaks
IMO, if we can get the nutritional support also, there may be little need for ordinary daily pain relievers; much pain can be relieved by the right kinds of movements and much of that can be learned by trial and error
on the other hand, there are out-of-the-ordinary needs to relieve pain where the pharma prevail, adding more toxins for the body to eliminate or store for ongoing mischief in the body–probably increasing the aversive chemical load for the rest of a person’s life exponentially
and the vicious cycle of pain and relief of it is permanently set up as a most lucrative investment
I just received an outstanding email (from DRBERMARR@aol.com dated 9/28 titled Why Dr. Hulda Clark did not have to die at age 80), making a case for physical activity as more primary than any other factor in longevity
I believe that we have a long way to go to incorporate our own additional and free-form movements, for example coupled with our choice of background music, which can trigger those delightful bursts of energy for which PACE is so well known–even as we work ourselves into too-long and too-highly focused sedentary work sessions
who has not had the experience of going into an almost trance-like state of near total immobility, even including barely moving the head and eyeballs and staring at the computer screen in concentration for long periods?
that is a most destructive adjustment to lopsided overloads!
even though the end product of this activity may be a calmly and efficiently executed piece of work, the price of it is beyond exorbitant
the point here is that the body may be immobilized to the point of nearly shutting down, while the mind and feelings may be at their best
this kind of trade-off can only be justified because we do not realize how dangerous it is; once we learn what we are capable of doing in overload situations and how counterproductive it is in the long run,it is time to back off and opt for a more ideal use of the total energy available to us
backing off such habits does not come easily and may even require a sense of alarm at how far such a practice has gone
it is playing brinkmanship beyond reason, but this we do not realize until we come to the very brink of shutting down
the lesson is very valuable for future use in moderating our own habits of energy use and moving back to a more primitive and naturally paced way of life which is unbelievably rewarding–and in the long run will be more productive in the best sense of the word
that is a whole other area with which each of us must come to terms
for me, I will opt for Holosync asap, like maybe even on 10/3; free-form spontaneous dance-like movements to background music as it triggers reactions to move or settle down–but best of all, becoming free to stop or start at will and in a controlled, sensible way which leads us to maximum freedom
it is the opposite of programming ourselves too much yet achieving more of what we value most
your being there for us is very valuable, Team THB
Entered: September 29th, 2009 at 12:55 pm. PermalinkI wear a bracelet with the letters NUNAE, standing for “neither unicorns nor Authorities exist,” a reminder that nobody in hell knows as I believed they did when I was a child…Now it’s pacing instead of the aerobics we were going to save ourselves with. Send money and we’ll tell all. Fooey. I’ve lived through brush your teeth horizontally, brush your teeth in circles, brush your teeth up and down. I’ve lived through total prolonged bedrest after a heart attack and get them on their feet. I’ve lived through pablum for stomach problems and heavy fiber for stomach problems, cholesterol causing heart attacks and over ripe bananas as possible source of polio….Medicine is ART, not SCIENCE. We should all remember this. Including the physicians who should learn humility.
Entered: September 30th, 2009 at 11:54 pm. Permalink