This programme concentrates on lifting weights, not CV.
While you’re free to hit the bike, rower or treadmill once a week, we really want you concentrating on the weights to stimulate muscle growth.
Why all the weights?
While a bit of CV is always good to get the heart pounding, you don’t need to go mad as the diet we’re giving you takes care of the calories you need to lose.
Lifting weights has side benefits too. One study showed that by performing a weights routine with short rest times between each set of exercises you can greatly increase growth hormone, which in turn reduces the size of your fat cells.
Lifting in this way can also greatly increase heart and lung fitness without having to pound the treadmill for hours week after week. OK, so you’re here to lose weight, but improving your all round fitness is the overall goal.
Don't spend hours down the gym
You’ll see the program doesn’t take much time – about 15 minutes to start with and rising to 25 minutes towards the end. We don’t want you spending extra hours in the gym as it can be counterproductive.
Your diet is supplying slightly less than is required to maintain your bodyweight. If you do a lot more than we prescribe you’ll end up draining your body’s energy reserves and that’ll impact on the speed at which your body can build new muscle and shift fat from your system.
So stick to what we’re asking and you can’t go far wrong. Think of it this way – once you’ve done what we’ve said you can hit the showers guilt free!
