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How to Lose Up to 20 Pounds in 6 Weeks

It is truly AMAZING how you can change your body in less than 6 weeks.

It truly is.

In fact, in the recent Turbulence Training Transformation Contest, the male winner lost 20 pounds of fat and our female winner lost 19 pounds in just six short weeks.

But of course, you won't change your body with a bad diet while relying on the "cardio confessional" to burn it off.

After all, each one of those lil' mini chocolate bars that you gave out for Halloween probably contains about 50 calories.

You'd have to jog for about 5 minutes at a slow cardio pace to burn that off.

And who are we kidding, NO ONE - not even me - eats just ONE of those little chocolate bar critters.

One of my friends posted on Facebook that he had 18 (!) of them by late Sunday evening.

Uh-oh.

That's 900 calories...or about 90 minutes of slow "yogging", as Will Ferrell called it in the cinematic classic, "Anchorman".

Want more bad news?

According to Men's Health magazine:

  • 67 minutes of jump rope burns 920 calories (only Rocky would like this)
  • 90 minutes of chopping wood burns 1000 calories
  • 2 hours of backpacking burns the 1000 calories

And according to a random website, it would take a 200 pound guy over 70 minutes on the elliptical machine or 2 hours of hard landscaping to burn 1000 calories.

Turbulence Training for Fat Loss program that helped these Transformation Contest winners.

Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men's Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit www.TurbulenceTraining.com



Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
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