TACFIT Afterburn: 20min buys 38hrs Fat-Burn!
September 4, 2009 – 9:08 pm
A 60 minute aerobic exercise program may burn nearly twice as many calories during the activity, than a 20 minute TACFIT session. But after the aerobic class the fat-burning drops off to almost 10% within the first 3 hours. One 20 minute TACFIT workout however continues to burn fat off your body for up to 38 hours! (Schuenke 2002). You can burn calories more for an hour in an aerobic class, or you can exercise for 1/3 the time with a TACFIT workout and burn fat for nearly 2 days!! Let’s just call it the “TACFIT Afterburn Effect.”
This has to do with what exercise scientists call EPOC: Exercise Post Oxygen Consumption. Think of it this way. If you work high intensity with different intervals of short duration, you actually go in to debt for oxygen; which is why if you sprint up a hill, you may breathe heavy at the top (if you’re not in shape for that hill). This “oxygen debt” must be paid back. (This point is sometimes referred to as the anaerobic threshold or onset of blood lactate accumulation: OBLA).
This also relates to why TACFIT helps you convert your cells from burning sugar to burning fat. Where an aerobics class would burn more calories during its hour, TACFIT focuses its attention on smoking out the subcutaneous fat, especially the “apron of fat” (called the pannus). This apron hangs down from the belly due to storage of fat in an immobilized sheath of connective tissue called the Omentum.
TACFIT is literally like a blowtorch because instead of going for the flash-in-the-pan calories you’ve consumed - the fast-burning sugars - it goes for the big fuels, incinerating your fat stores… burning the “apron.”
Check out Lara in this photo! Lara is the mother of a 10 month old boy. That’s right, my friends, she’s a new Mom!!! Imagine her 9 months pregnant. But that’s not all.
Before she was pregnant, she was in a car accident which caused her to have spinal surgery. Doctors said she wouldn’t be able to walk.
She compelled herself to walk, then run; then train exclusively with TACFIT and Flowfit.
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As you become more skilled and in shape, though, that EPOC effect starts to lesson (Frey et al., 1993). To address this, TACFIT offers you 4 levels to each skill, each building upon the prior becoming more complex. In this way, the fat incineration doesn’t stop, until you’re an absolutely shredded machine of tactical efficacy.
To train at the high intensity level of TACFIT workouts, you must accelerate recovery sufficiently. That’s why this EPOC happens: you temporarily have a heightened metabolism, but you must restore the body to a resting state so you can adapt to the exercise you just performed. Your recovery demands include hormone balancing, fuel replenishment, cellular repair, coordination (innervation), and muscle growth (anabolism). This is why TACFIT sessions are “sandwiched” with a suite of recovery elements (joint mobility and compensatory yoga), without which you would neither be able to keep yesterday’s progress, nor would you be able to be able to train intensely enough in tomorrow’s work.
Here is an example of TACFIT at work:














4 Responses to “TACFIT Afterburn: 20min buys 38hrs Fat-Burn!”
hello,
coach sonnon. wow. had no idea about this sort of fat burning duration. wouldn’t have even thought something like that was possible.
thanks
By lorenzodamarith on Sep 8, 2009
Lorenzo, that’s only with regards to what we CURRENTLY have proven with science. What ACTUALLY happens is yet to be discovered…
We are much more powerful than we have proven ourselves to be through double-blind peer-reviewed studies.
By Scott Sonnon on Sep 8, 2009
Hello Coach,
From what I have seen, Tacfit is an impressive program. I am a fan of anaerobic threshold training and have done Crossfit training. I am definitely going to include some of those exercise drills into my routine.
In this article you touch upon recovery. I have used Indian club swinging for active recovery. The club swinging led me to clubbells and is how I was introduced to your programs. So I am backing into your suggested order of programs.
I just started Intu-flow and plan on giving it 3 weeks before increasing complexity. I am particularly interested in the neck mobility as I have a lot of tension in the C1-C3 area. My question to you…is it alright to do the neck moblitiy drills multiple times per day?
Thank you for all the positives you do!
By Richard Manchur on Sep 9, 2009
Richard,
So long as you are 3 or lower on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the worst pain. Move to the tension, not through the tension. Shave it off. Yes, more often is better, though not necessarily more repetitions at one time, so long as you don’t have any pins and needles, numbness or any referred pain.
Best,
Scott
By Scott Sonnon on Sep 9, 2009