#52 - MOVE FIT: I USE INTERVAL TRAINING TO SHED BELLY FAT, FAST.

Happy Wednesday. We have made it to the middle of the week. It is June 10th. Happy Wednesday. I'm Jorge Cruise, and welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show. This is the show for high-performance living, for people who do not have time. If you're busy, welcome. And what this means, and really it's been my life's work really to help people achieve a level of performance in their life, whether it's from work, relationships, travel, whatever it is your passion is, you got to perform better in today's 2020 world with COVID-19. You need that edge. And as a trainer, as a nutritionist, and life strategist, my work has been really to help people lower their waist circumference. That's a fancy way to say belly fat. And by lowering your belly fat, you get the edge. And that's what this show is all about. It's really about utilizing, uh, the best I've learned in all aspects of health and fitness, uh, from nutrition to exercise, uh, to Thinking fit, sleeping fit, all that. And on today's show, we're going to be talking about a move fit idea about interval training, which I think is going to change your way of exercising. I hope after today's show you won't exercise ever again the same. Hopefully, you'll work out smarter. And I think it's going to be a great show. So, we'll get to that in just a minute. This episode is brought to you by jorgecruise.com. Yes. That's my website. We've got a really cool thing going on at JorgeCruise.com where if you take a quick survey, you get my new Belly Factor online course for free. It's on the very top of the site if you go to JorgeCruise.com, and I hate to spell my own name, but I'm going to do it. It's JorgeCruise.com. Go to that website. It's limited to the first 100 people. It's digital. It'll ask for all your information at the very end. Please fill it out. I really am utilize this survey. I do it once a year. This is 2020's to really better prepare what I do on the show, what I do in my books, what I do online, what I do on television from your feedback. So I really will utilize this, and I really appreciate your help. So check that out. Again, go to JorgeCruise.com, take the quick survey, links at the top of the page. And more importantly, you will get a free Belly Fat Cure online course that I am developing. You'll get it probably at the end of the month. It'll be right around the the beginning of July for free, first 100 people. So check that out. We're also brought to you by my favorite way to cheat a fast, which is Navitas Organics. Navitas Organics makes the most amazing superfoods that I use every day, from wheatgrass to maca. But the reason I love them so much is because I cheat my fast with, with what I call a flat belly meal. And you've heard this, but I'm going to repeat it because you got to use this. It's 3 tablespoons of organic chia seed and you add 3 tablespoons of avocado oil, 8 ounces of almond milk, and stir.

Voilà.

Literally less than a minute. You can add monk fruit or stevia to sweeten without breaking a fast. And what this meal will do, it's 30 grams of fiber. It'll pass through you. It'll fill you up. But it won't break the fast. And it's how a lot of my celebrities, New York, Malibu, this is how they all do it. And it's tricky, but this makes it easy. It really, really does. You're gonna see it this season. Hopefully this month. If it's not this month, it's next month. I was just talking to Dorinda Medley, one of my clients, and we don't know when it'll be airing yet, but I shared all this on the show, on The Real Housewives of New York on Bravo. So stay tuned, I'll be announcing that. We're also brought to you by Primal Kitchen. Now, I mentioned in the flat belly meals the avocado oil. Well, my nutrition mentor is Mark Sisson, who is 68 years young and has a six-pack that has inspired me for years. And I'm finally getting there. So if Mark's listening, I know he's in California this week, we're going to be talking and catching up, but we talked just a few weeks ago and he shared a lot of his best strategies on nutrition. And one of them is without question avocado oil. For me, it's been a game changer. I've been using it now for over 3 years. And I, as much as I have olive oil in the house and I used to have flaxseed oil, my very first book had a whole thing about flaxseed oil. I now believe in 2020 that out of all the oils, you really only need one for cooking, for eating, for your body, and that's avocado oil. I truly don't use anything else. When I make my eggs in the morning, I use their spray. It comes out, you make your eggs really yummy. If I do that, that's how I break my fast. I'll make eggs because I already have the good oils in the yolk, so just a little bit goes a long way. But if I'm making a flat belly meal, 3 tablespoons. So super delicious stuff, check them out. They're giving us, Primal Kitchen that is, is giving us a free chipotle lemon mayo. That is totally free on checkout. You just need to go to primalkitchen.com/jorgecruise. And I forgot to mention that Navitas Organics is also giving away 30% off. So let me go back one step here. At checkout for any superfoods you buy, only for our listeners. So both of these folks, Navitas and Primal, are really great friends of our show. For Navitas, if you wanna get that 30% off, you go to navitasorganics.com/cruise. And for Primal Kitchen to get the free chipotle lemon mayo, made from avocado oil, simply go to primalkitchen.com/jorgecruise. So that's it. And on today's show, we are going to talk about Move Fits, which is my way of saying exercise affirmations. And I've got something today you're going to love. It says, I use interval training to shed belly fat fast. Let's get started right now.

It's a fact, 91% of us have dangerous amount of belly fat. And it isn't just unsightly. When you have too much belly fat, you're more likely to suffer from aches and pains, low energy, memory loss, and poor sleep, which prevents you from performing your best at work, spending true quality time with your loved ones, and simply enjoying life. The good news is that you can cure belly fat and immediately start to work better, reduce pain, improve memory, and sleep better using simple shortcuts I've gathered. Hi, my name is Jorge Cruise, and I'm known as the 8-Minute Life Strategist to the world's busiest celebrities. I've been a fitness, nutrition, and high-performance living strategist for over 25 years, and you may have seen my work with Oprah Winfrey, Khloe Kardashian, President Clinton, Tyra Banks, Dr. Oz, Tony Robbins, or even Steve Harvey. My passion to find the best science-backed fitness shortcuts has allowed me to write over over 30 books and become a multiple New York Times bestselling author with over 9 million books in print. And I know I can help you too. Welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show.

Well, it is Wednesday and Wednesday is right in the middle of the week. So I hope you're having a great, what we used to call hump day. I think everyone still calls it that. But, uh, you know, uh, the week is still young. We got a whole Wednesday in front of us, Thursday and Friday, and then the weekend's here in San Diego. A lot of things are improving after COVID-19. A lot of gyms will be opening on Friday here in California. So that's interesting. I'm curious. I personally will not be going back. I'm good. This 8-minute-in-the-morning plan that I've been doing for, gosh, over 20 years. And it's really about today's show because I want to share with you an effective way, whether you go to the gym or not, matter to work out that I think for me transformed my workout in the last probably 5 years. Uh, for years all I did was strength training, a little bit of cardio, uh, and my first book, 8 Minutes in the Morning, that was published in 2001, became a New York Times bestseller. It helped tons of people lose weight, uh, by strength training. And the theory behind that was if you build muscle, uh, muscle burns fat. And so muscle conditioning, you know, and it was mainly women and men that did this that were in midlife, and Oprah wrote about it in her magazine, and the rest is history. So always grateful to Oprah for that. Uh, in today's world, things are different. As much as I like muscle conditioning, and it's great to build muscle to burn fat, what interval training is about is about utilizing a tempo of exercise that directly taps into stored belly fat, adipose tissue. The science was done originally, uh, outside of the U.S. by a man named Boucher, Dr. Boucher, uh, B-O-U-T-C-H-E-R, if you want to Google it. And it was published in the Journal of Obesity in 2011. I got my hands on this about 5 years ago. And basically, you also probably know this interval training method as high-intensity interval training, HIIT training. And I'm going to share with you an affirmation today that I hope will give you an advantage, and I hope will change how you exercise moving forward. Because I believe whether you're doing cardio, lifting weights, building lean muscle, if you can utilize interval training, you will tap into what is known as catecholamines— big fancy word— but these enzymes in your, in your body, mainly around your abdominal area, that will tap into stored belly fat. Now obviously, if you do it in a fasted state, you're going to burn even more because then your body doesn't have to compete with whatever you've been eating. And the way I do it with my clients live every morning on Zoom is we do it on an empty stomach. And I mean, most of my clients fast, uh, 16 to 20 hours. I do about a 22-hour fast, 23-hour fast, eat in an hour day. And believe me, I have tons of energy in the morning. And you guys know my biohacks on that— just a little water with a little pink Himalayan, pink Himalayan sea salt, and you have mad energy. But the bottom line is high-intensity interval training, or interval training, will change your life. And if you can utilize it, whether you're walking today, whether you're doing one of my 8-minute workouts, whether you're at the gym, maybe later this month, wherever you're at, basically you start slow. I usually recommend 40 seconds slow, 40 seconds high. So if you're walking, you walk normal for 40 seconds, then you do what I would call a power walk for 40 seconds, and then you lower for 40, and then just repeat that for 8 minutes. And believe me, 8 minutes is just the, the marking point. You could do 20, 30, 40 minutes, an hour, no problem on that. So the affirmation today is going to give you the edge on this to hopefully embrace this and make this a part of your life. I'm going to read it to you 3 times, and then I'm going to ask you to repeat it 3 times. So let's do this right now. It says, I use interval training to shed belly fat fast. I use interval training to shed belly fat fast. I use interval training to shed belly fat fast. Now, why do you want to shed belly fat? Well, uh, as I always say, it's unsightly. But beyond that, it lowers every marker for health in your body, including cancer. And if you can reduce belly fat, you're going to give yourself the greatest edge, including maximum mat energy. And believe me, you need this. So let's do 3 together right now. Take a deep breath in. Hopefully you're in front of a mirror.

And let's say the following: I use interval training to shed belly fat fast.

I use interval training to shed belly fat fast. Say one last time with me. Let's do this together. Deep breath in. I use interval training to shed belly fat fast. You may be thinking, How fast? Well, it just takes 8 minutes to really get it going, and it adds up over the course of a week. We do it 5 times a week. I do it live with my clients. I encourage my clients to use it all throughout the day, and they do, whether they're walking from their car to the grocery store to whatever, or going on a real walk. But you can lose up to 2 pounds of belly fat per week. And imagine shedding this weight forever, because this is a lifestyle. Hack. This is something you can do anytime. Doesn't have to be in a gym. Believe me, I will not be going to a gym for a while. I think that's too much— I hate to say it— of a waste of time when you can do so much at home. And after COVID-19, I think it's one of the silver linings. As much as I love nice gyms like Equinox or even 24 Hour Fitness, I think the world has changed, and at-home training is where it's at, my friends. The science is incredible. Again, it's by this Dr. Stephen Boucher, B-O-U-T-C-H-E-R. Um, I'll put the link to the article if you want to read it in today's, uh, with today's screensaver. If you go to jorgecruise.com, obviously take the survey I have on belly fat and my new program I'm working on, but download the graphic. Use this for yourself and share it with anyone who works out who doesn't utilize interval training. Because I'll tell you, if you're still doing dumbbells and just doing tricep kickbacks and taking a breath for 2 minutes and then doing another minute, and you're just kind of working out and listening to music and not really— you don't have a rhythm to it. The rhythm is everything. It reminds me of the circadian code in our bodies, and it's almost like the blueprint to unlocking stored belly fat, this interval training, high-intensity interval training. And there's so many benefits beyond waste management. Literally, your waist circumference will drop, but you improve energy, you improve your mitochondria, which improves energy production. Uh, it goes on and on and on. I— you guys know I write for AARP, and it's something that they've written about, about how important interval training can be to your health and to your overall well-being, especially if you're over 50, which I'm almost there. And I am a member of AARP, so shout out to AARP. And if you're a member, shout out to you. And I'll tell you, it's really fun too, because I think intervals— people think you have to be some sort of Olympic athlete to do interval training. And you may, if you Google this, see people doing CrossFit or things of that nature, which is wonderful, using kettlebells. But you don't need to use a kettlebell. You can just use your own body weight. When we work out, when I work out with my online clients at jorgecruise.com for our 8-minute workout in the mornings, we go live Monday through Friday. It's 8 minutes and we use no equipment at all, at all. And people are losing weight and more importantly feeling transformed. And the benefit beyond that is you're also going to build muscle, you're going to feel stronger, your bones are going to get better. And again, like I said, you're going to have energy. And I think in today's world that is a huge plus, you know. And, uh, and it's so simple. So use it today, guys. And my encouragement to you is to really look into this as something that you can shift your whole workout for. And it doesn't matter what it is, even sports, whether it's rowing a boat, whether it's skiing, whatever your sport is, whatever you like to do, you can do it with intervals. And start off with the simple cadence, let me give it to you again, of 40 seconds as a warmup. Think of it as a warmup or a slow, slower portion of the workout. And on a 0 to 10 scale, 10 meaning you're maxed out and 0 is like you're barely moving, pretty much resting. You want to be at a 5 when you're, when you're on that low, no lower than a 4, 4 to 5. So that's 40 seconds, whether you're— I'm just imagining right now you're walking, right? And you're just walking at a good nice pace, say at 5. And then when you have your alarm go off on your watch, and you can set an interval trainer to— you can download apps for free on interval training—

you can have it beep at 40 seconds and then do 40 seconds of a high.

And you want to go up to a level 8 Maybe a 9. I wouldn't get past the 9. I would say at an 8. And then you're pumping your arms, you're moving faster. It's not a run, but maybe a slight jog, but you are getting that heart rate up. And that is how you activate this fat burning, belly fat burning mechanism to occur in your body.

40 seconds of that, and then 40 seconds of back to 5.

And you repeat this rhythm, this interval, back and forth for 8 minutes. Start with that. And if you can do more than 8 minutes, continue. You know, I have clients in, in our class today they were just talking about it, they go up to an hour doing this kind of workout. So, and just get results faster, you know, and you're gonna have more energy, again, huge amounts of energy. So check it out. I also just wanna remind you to sign up for my newsletter if you haven't done that. We talk about interval training, we'll be talking about it this Friday. I wanna remind you to check out the survey I'm doing on belly fat at jorgecruise.com, because if belly fat is something you need to get rid of, I would love to hear from you personally. And just go there and you can get a free belly fat cure online course I'll be selling, uh, eventually, but it'll be free to the first 100 people. And if you are able to fill it out, I'll have all your information, so I'll get in touch with you. So I hope this makes good sense. I hope this is not scary. If anything, it's going to save you time, and I think that's the most important resource we can utilize, uh, in 2020, uh, with COVID-19 hopefully dissipating and hopefully you getting back to a normal routine in your life. Don't feel like you need to go to a gym. I mean, if you do, use this at the gym, whether it's on a treadmill, whether it's on a Peloton bike, uh, whatever it is you're utilizing, you can use interval training to transform your waist circumference. And, uh, the more you do, the quicker you'll see the results. So do that. I look forward to hearing your success. Please give our podcast 5 stars, share today's interval training message message with a minimum of 3 friends today. Text it, copy the link, post it on your social media, put it on Facebook, please. I really appreciate it. It's the only thing I ask in return. So I hope this has been a great show. I look forward to hearing your success. Peace and purpose. Now, if you have a minute more, listen in. I want to invite you to join my Jorge Cruise Report. Comes out on Fridays, my favorite day of the week. Uh, and it's a good time to take this with you. It's a short little email that I send out on Fridays with 5 bullets that'll give you my best insights from the week on everything from an app to a website to a product I'm using to, uh, any kind of shortcut. And, you know, it's really my best shortcuts of the week. So if you want that, it's totally free. All you have to do is go to my website, go to jorgecruise.com/friday. Sign up. It's totally free. Tell your friends, family, uh, sign up. We have over, uh, of a quarter of a million people that have signed up for this, and, uh, it's something I really pride myself on keeping short. As you know, I'm the 8 Minute Life Strategist, so I'm not going to go long. I'm going to keep things short for you but effective and efficient, and you can do a lot in just, uh, you know, in a short period of time. You know that that's what I'm all about. So again, the website is jorgecruise.com. I'll spell it for you. It's It's jorgecruise.com/friday, plural, Friday. All right, check it out. It's there. It's free. I look forward to seeing you soon, and I'll see you on Fridays as well. All right, take good care. Peace and purpose.