Afterburn is a workout program designed to help you lose weight as quickly and effectively as possible. The creators of Afterburn are Alwyn Cosgrove and his wife, Rachel Cosgrove. They are major contributors to the fitness coaching and performance coaching industries. Alwyn has proved his programs both in his gym and with clients all over the world. Afterburn simplifies the science of weight loss. It explains how to make significant changes in your workouts that will allow you to burn more calories in less time – and continue burning calories for hours after your workout.
Afterburn teaches the fundamentals of nutrition, strength training and cardio to optimize weight loss.The nutrition program will familiarize you with the ratio of carbs/fats/proteins that you should be eating, as well as what your calorie level should be. The strength training portion emphasizes metabolic circuits that include high reps and progressively more exercises in those circuits. The power of metabolic circuits is twofold: they allow you to burn the maximum amount of calories during a workout, as well as to continue burning calories afterward. Because you are using significant weight loads, you should be able to build muscle or at least maintain your lean muscle – which is essential to a good weight loss program.
The final component of the program is an interval cardio segment that pushes you to your limit. The research is pretty conclusive: to really burn calories, you need to be doing a workout program that pushes you to high levels of effort, even if you’re only working out for a few minutes.
Recommendation
Afterburn is a great workout program for people who are somewhat in shape and can perform challenging movements. The concepts are right in line when it comes to maximizing calorie burn and achieving weight loss. There is a challenge for the entry level group of people trying to lose weight (those who are 20+ lbs. overweight and haven’t worked out in awhile). Afterburn doesn’t emphasize muscle health/foam rolling, flexibility, pre-hab, core strength, or exercise progression/regression. Our recommendation if you are in the 20+ lbs. overweight group is to start with the book Core Performance. It will get your body working correctly to be able to handle the rigors of a program like Afterburn.
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