Whether you are new to fitness or been around, you should try this cardiovascular training technique that saves time and gets results.
Wide-open-training (WOT) is a cardiovascular technique that burns fat, improves heart health, and builds muscle. The technique has so many benefits because it causes the release of human growth hormone (proven clinically as you will see).
WOT is light impact and easy on your feet, back and knees. Even though it is short duration it is super-intense so make sure you talk to your doctor before starting. And even then make sure you start out easy, and only after watching the video to the left and linked at the bottom of this page.
WOT is an acronym used in automotive tech manuals that stands for wide-open-throttle. I use it for this training technique because it so accurately describes what you do, Try it and you will see for yourself.
Quick and easy cardio
You can do your entire WOT program in 10 to 20 minutes. Twenty minutes is the max you should spend on this, and it may not be helpful to go longer. Train only three times per week, and limit your first few sessions to the routine shown below during which nine minutes are warm-up and recovery so you are only going wide-open for three segments of 30 seconds each.
- three minute warm up
- 30 seconds wide-open
- 90 seconds recovery
- 30 seconds wide-open
- 90 seconds recovery
- 30 seconds wide-open
- three minute cool down.
Choose your cardio weapon
You can do your WOT program on an elliptical machine, recumbent or stationary bike, or anything available that uses your legs; you can do sprints if you just can't stand to not run. If you have leg or back problems you can use a stationary arm and shoulder machine, which is like a bicycle that you pedal with your arms.
The key to wide-open-training's great results is it releases your own growth hormone, which burns fat, fuels muscle growth, and generally makes your body think it should behave like you are a teenager and growing. When you watch the videos you will learn about a new study that shows this type of training actually mimics taking injections of growth hormone. If you don't already know, growth hormone is a major focus of anti-aging therapies.
The training according to Dr. Joseph Mercola who demonstrates it on the video, "Releases up to a 500 percent increase in growth hormone that stays in your body for two hours and goes after body fat like a heat seeking missile."
Cardio results that speak for themselves
I wish I could take credit for coming up with this training technique. I have been into it for a couple years, because I read about the growth hormone factor and it made sense to me. Unfortunately there is a mindset that makes a lot of folks think that running longer and farther are what real cardio is all about. I believe most runners will have trouble overcoming that, I know that I did.
I have read Doctor Mercola's articles and watched his videos for a long time, but always had an inkling that he didn't get the fitness thing because he was -- and looked like -- a distance runner, which generally means looking like you are malnourished.
But Mercola has shifted gears and it's great to see because this is such a good training technique and he is well-known so it should help get the word out. It should also get him taken more seriously by those who are into muscles and shapely physiques.
Before you go the videos take a look at how Doctor Mercola used to look. The difference is so obvious that you can not dispute that something happened, and he admits it was the training. Now watch the videos and see how he looks today.
Make sure you have an annual physical.
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