If Your Body was a Car your Muscles would be the Engine

So, if you haven't figured this out by now I am a Resistance Training aficionado, but what you might not know is that I am also a big believer in training at a High Intensity. These two things definitely define my athlete based training style. Let me apply this to trying to get that lean/shredded and toned/athletic look..........combining cardio and resistance training.......High Intensity Interval Training. WHY.......

Imagine your body is a car and your muscles are the engine. The only difference from a real car is that this car has to be fueled up everyday. The food that you eat everyday is the gas that is used to fuel that car. All day long your engine is using fuel, and at the end of the day the unused fuel is stored in your gas tank for later use.....Fat. The more and more you don't use all your daily fuel the larger and larger your gas tank gets.

Say you want to lose Fat........your engine has to burn through the fuel that you take in everyday and then use some of the fuel from what is stored in your gas tank. So to lose all the fat that you don't want and to keep it off.............your car needs to burn through all the fuel in the tank (however big the tank), and then from there on out your engine has to be efficient enough to use all the gas from the daily fuel ups.

Knowing this you want to build the biggest engine possible in your car and race that engine as hard as it can go so it uses up the fuel from it's tank. .....High Intensity Interval Training is a great way to do this. I utilize this training method with some of my clients, helping them to get into that athlete mindset and push themselves to an intense level. So, build up your engine so that you can burn through your fuel tank to rebuild (reshape) your Mini Van into an Aston Martin.

I will get more into how this works in my next blog.