A three-step morning routine for fat loss: a 12-to-16-hour overnight fast, 20-30 minutes of low-intensity aerobic activity while fasted, then 2-5 minutes of cold exposure. The speaker says clients see "gangbuster" results with this protocol, which he developed while training for an Ironman.
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I'm going to give you my 1-2-3 method for losing fat very, very quickly, and I do this every single day. You get up in the morning and you're in a fasted state. Preferably, you fasted for 12 to 16 hours. 12 to 16 hours is kind of the magic window to go without eating each day. Next, when you're in that fasted state, you do anywhere from about 20 to 30 minutes of any type of aerobic exercise, not cortisol stress-producing exercise, something very easy. Walk in the sunshine, easy swim, easy yoga session. You name it. So you're in a fasted state, you're tapping into your own adipose tissue by doing something aerobic in that fasted state, and then you finish with 2 to 5 minutes of cold exposure. 2 to 5 minutes of cold exposure. So you're fasted, you wake up, aerobic exercise, and you finish with cold. And for a bonus on that, if you can have a little bit of caffeine to enhance your fatty acid utilization, coffee or green tea, it'll blow up that effect even more. I discovered this when I was training for Ironman and I had to stay very lean, very thin. So I started into this morning protocol every day. Every day. I began to implement it with my clients, and it works like gangbusters, especially if you're trying to lose weight or tap into your own adipose tissue.