LeanLifestyleInsider.mp3
29 Jan 2026 · 3 min
Ben Greenfield and Abel James share their current fat-loss workouts: pull-ups to failure, burpees, heavy squats and deadlifts, and a Litvinov-style hill sprint protocol mixing dumbbell swings with 400-meter uphill sprints. They also introduce LeanLifestyleInsider.com, which documents their daily practices with behind-the-scenes detail.
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Hey, folks, it's me, Ben Greenfield.
And this is Abel James.
And you may recognize me, Ben, from the Ben Greenfield fitness podcast or me.
From the Fat Burning man show.
And today, Abel and I want to tell you the number one workout that we're doing right now to burn fat. So, Abel, I'll let you take it away first. What is it that you're doing right now when it comes to exercise to get. To get your body as lean as possible?
All right, so the first thing that I do that a lot of people skip is a warmup. I do about five minutes of shadow boxing and light stretching. Then I go straight into doing some pull ups to failure, doing some burpees, and then I do some heavy squats and heavy deadlifts in my shed in the backyard. And that's it. It's easy and I love it right now.
Did you just say a shed in the backyard?
That's right. I work out in my shed. Or usually I work out actually in my backyard in the sun because it's just that nice in Austin this time of year.
I was going to say the shed's about as masochistic as you can get. And just see out there doing your squats and deadlifts, that's where my punching bag is. So I've got this thing that I'm doing. It's called a Litvinov sprint. And it's.
I love how you geek out all the time, Ben.
I have no clue what Litvinov even means anyways, though, what I do is I've got this 50, 50 pound dumbbell and I take it out to the hill behind my house and I do 15 dumbbell swings and then sprint 400 meters up the hill. Like, I drop the dumbbell and while the dumbbell is kind of like still in. In midair, dropping to the ground, I'm off sprinting. Man, I do that eight times through. And man, when it comes to a fat burning workout, that is about the most potent thing that I've found yet. So.
So you sprint back and forth before the dumbbell even hits the ground, right?
Exactly, exactly. It's like a roadrunner from Looney Tunes.
That's a fat burning workout right there.
Exactly. So I guess folks are probably wondering why Abel and I are here geeking out about Fat Loss, and it's because we've got a new website.
That's right.
And it is basically Abel and I following each other around each other's houses with a came virtually, of course, since Abel lives in Austin and I live in Washington, and we are basically showing you everything that we do from the time we get up out of bed in the morning, all the way up through lunch, through our workouts, through dinner, through bedtime, to live what we call a lean lifestyle.
Yeah, and you'll learn things that are kind of the more advanced strategies. A lot of times on our podcasts, our shows, our blogs, we'll talk about things that are kind of generalized to the public, but these are the things that we literally do ourselves every day. All of the secrets of what we're cooking, what we're eating for breakfast or not eating for breakfast for that matter, what we may or may not be putting in our coffee depending on the day, pretty much any supplement that we're taking, and tons more. All of the. I mean, Ben has all sorts of crazy gizmos that you'll be able to see. It's a blast to watch.
And Abel's house is much cleaner than mine, as you'll also find out. So anyways though, here's what you do if you want to get inside the Lean Lifestyle Insider right now. Alright, so Abel, what is the URL that people can go to if they want to get in on the Lean Lifestyle Insider right now? That would be leanlifestyleinsider.comb that's lean lifestyleinsider.comb and I'll put a link in the show notes for you all too. Hey Abel, thanks for coming on the show.
Anytime, man.
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