Stay Lean Without Dieting: Turn Your Workout From Anaerobic to Aerobic

We all know that lifting weights is an anaerobic workout. I encounter many people at the gym who ask me how I stay so lean all the time, and my response is mainly because of how I train. I’ve been able to maintain a body-fat percentage of 4-5 percent without any real dieting because of how I train. How to turn an anaerobic workout into an aerobic workout is quite simple.

For example, on a Monday I might do chest and biceps. Well, what I would do on that day is work one set of chest, and then one set of biceps, and then alternate doing ab work during this chest and bicep exercise. What I am doing is not giving myself time to rest by training two different body parts back and forth. What this does is speed your heart rate and burns a high amount of calories because of the speed of the exercises and the lack of rest time between sets and exercises. While incorporating this type of circuit training, your workout is starting to become aerobic because of the increase in heart rate, uncontrollable sweating, and shortness of breath.

When training like this, it is important to ease into it slowly because, if you’ve never trained like this, you will struggle in finishing your workout. The reason is that it takes time to build the stamina required to train like this. Another workout example is on Tuesday, I might do shoulders and back, and then alternate doing calves during those exercises. I’ll do one set of shoulders, and then do one set of back, and then I’ll go back and forth while trying to complete four exercises per body part.

When you are walking back and forth from one exercise station to the next by working out two different body parts, you will feel very tired and you will sweat tremendously. The benefit from this is that you can still build muscle during this process, and you will be burning more calories because of the intensity and aerobic effects of this workout.

Guys, don’t be afraid that you will lose muscle by doing this. You will still be able to build and maintain muscle while training this way. The only difference now is that you will be burning more calories at a faster rate, similar to training on a treadmill or stair-master. If you can incorporate training like this into your workout, it can take the place of doing cardio because of the aerobic effects of this circuit training and the residual effects of the amount of calories you will be burning.

This training method allows me stay lean and have ripped abs at all times, even when I am not dieting. This training method can do the same thing for you.