Circuit Training - the best way to get fit

Circuit training is the best way to burn fat, turbo-charge your metabolism, build muscle and most importantly, get fit.

Far too many people go to the gym and focus on single movement exercises. Do you ever notice that the people doing single movement exercises and hang around the ‘machines’ all day are out of shape? Well, they are. Why? Because these types of exercises concentrate on only a few muscles and require extended recovery times between sets. The problem is that when you take extended breaks (over 2 minutes) your heart-rate plummets, making it hard to burn calories. Also, these concentrated exercises (concentrated curls, single leg extensions, triceps pull downs, etc.) only engage a few muscles at a single time. So when you finish 1 set, the few muscles used need a few minutes for recovery. Again, your heart-rate slows down at this point.

Circuit training means performing 3 or more exercises in succession; enabling you to target several muscles within 1 complete circuit set. The result is that your heart-rate skyrockets and you tax several, even dozens, of muscles at once.

Here is a good circuit training routine to get you started:



You can incorporate any 3 or more exercises into your circuit sets. Focus on free-weights and try to target as many muscles as possible. Also, the nicest thing about circuit training is that your core is constantly being engaged. And the best way to strengthen your abs is through multiple full body and multiple movement exercises. Straight sets of crunches are a thing of the past because simply, they don’t work as well as a well executed circuit set.

So to get really fit, make sure you tax your whole body and keep resting times to 1 minute between circuit sets.

Contact me if you have any questions!

And stay tuned for the next post on the benefits of free-weights.