Some “Easy Strength” Methods, Tips, and Ideas for Easy Fat Loss I have written a lot—and will continue to write a lot—about high-frequency training . I have sort of an ever ongoing series, in fact, dealing with different ways to use and incorporate HFT based on your goals and needs. In this essay, I want to discuss some ways that you can use HFT for fat loss. I believe that a lot of lifters, and regular gym-goers in general, don’t achieve their fat loss goals because they train too hard and they diet too strictly. That might seem as if it’s an odd statement at first. After all, do we not get the best results when we are regimented and serious about our training and eating? In some ways maybe, but not so fast. When you eat very little and train with a lot of intensity—even if it’s just “intense” cardio—you quickly burn out, you don’t feel good, and you don’t stick with it. You may get good results at first , but the gains won’t last. I have written elsewhere that
Some Thoughts on Hard Training, Challenges, and Other Such Stuff In my last essay on “ Outdoor Workout Challenges ,” I mentioned the body’s need for challenges on occasion, and gave some workout ideas for loaded carries and odd lifts. In this essay, I just want to discuss hard training in general, and give some thoughts on when—and when not—to use challenges and other hard forms of training. First, the body does need to be challenged constantly in some way. But this doesn’t mean that one has to always go “all out” at each session, much less on each and every work set. For instance, the act of working out on a regular basis is itself a challenge to the body. Your body grows bigger and/or stronger—or fat loss occurs—through adaptation and accumulation. Without pushing your body to do more and more on a regular basis, this won’t transpire, and results won’t happen. Our body doesn’t just need to be challenged through training. It also needs to be disciplined through