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Many people who work out a lot don’t know if they are exercising too HARD. Conversely, there’s many others who don’t know that they aren’t working hard enough. With metabolic resistance training workouts becoming so popular, it’s important to know exactly what these workouts are AND to show you when you’re doing them right and if you are doing them wrong.

Metabolic training is a great and fast way to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. Despite what you may read in other blogs or in books. it’s very possible to build muscle and lose belly fat simultaneously. The key is having the right workout and nutrition program. A metabolic resistance training workout is a hybrid total body exercise method that essentially focuses on both movements and muscles. I think of it as a variety of exercises, such as barbell, dumbell, kettlebell, and bodyweight exercises. Using multiple sets and reps, you actually deplete muscle glycogen and can cause moderate, but not extreme, muscle damage.

Unfortunately,some inexperienced trainers don’t know how to balance too much metabolic training with just enough, so in working a proven fat loss training system, they end up hurting their clients. So, the key is to be familiar with signs that might indicate you’re working too hard in your metabolic workouts when trying to get those six pack abs.

Here are the signs you are exercising too hard:

1) Blacking out, dizziness, etc. – as obvious as this seems, I know of people who do too much, too soon in their metabolic training, causing issues with dizziness and almost blacking out. One doesn’t need to exercise this hard to burn fat.
2) Feeling pain – Discomfort is fine (it’s actually essential for weight loss), but pain is not. Pain likely means you’ve pulled a muscle or worse You have to push yourself to get results, and you have to push through discomfort, but if you ever feel any sharp pains during a set stop immediately and move on to the next exercise. If the pain persists, end the workout and get a professional to examine you.
3) You’re getting pathetically weaker, chronically injured, and smaller from your workouts. That means you’re training too hard, too often, and without the right stimulus. Some folks need to stop playing the hardcore conditioning card all the time, man up, take some rests between sets, and lift heavy weights again.
4) You’re still sore 4 days later from a workout. This means you’ve done too much volume. Cut back on the number of sets you do by 25-50%. You don’t need to put that much damage on the muscle in order to build muscle or burn calories. I hear this a lot…in fact, I just received an email from a guy who did a workout and couldn’t bend his arms for 4 days…his liver enzymes were elevated (a sign of extreme muscle damage).

In worst case scenarios, people suffer muscle rhabdomylosis (extreme muscle damage) and that can cause kidney failure because your kidneys are overwhelmed by the byproducts of the muscle damage. Remember, good workouts are designed to condition and adapt your body, NOT annihilate it I just want to look great at the beach. On the other hand, some people don’t exercise hard enough in their bootcamp workouts or fat loss program.

So here are four signs you’re not working hard enough.

1) You’re not sweating a lot – You don’t need to sweat to get strong (and you won’t because you’re rest periods will be long), but if you’re doing metabolic training for fat loss or conditioning, you should have sweat dripping off your head about 10 minutes into the main workout (excludes warm-up time).
2) You feel like you could go for another workout – unless you’re a professional athlete, a 45-minute metabolic workout should cause more than enough fatigue and stimulus for your goals. If you’re ready to train again, you aren’t working hard enough in your main workout.
3) You’re using a weight or bodyweight exercise that allows you to do 20% (or more) repetitions than what is recommended for your sets. For example, if your program calls for a set of 10, and you can easily do 12 reps or more with the weight or bodyweight exercise you’ve chosen, then you’re not going to get the full metabolic response.
4) You’re resting for more than a minute between exercises. Metabolic workouts rely on shortened (and often incomplete) rests between exercises. Long rests are for getting strong, not conditioning. Metabolic resistance training workouts are widely considered to be the best fat loss programs in the world right now. However, it’s necessary to complete proper workouts. There’s no point in getting injured so that you miss a week or more of training. You won’t get or stay lean that way.

The bottomline is that you need consistent, proven, scientifically designed workouts like the one discussed in the Turbulence Training MRT fat burning system.

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