John Jaquish - Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time: So Is Cardio, and There’s a Better Way to Have the Body You Want

Do any of these describe your experience with exercise?

Problem #1: Lifting weights year after year, yet continuing to look about the same.

Problem #2: Sustaining injuries or having chronic sore joints as a result of lifting weights.

Problem #3: Doing hours of cardio without significant weight loss or muscle gain.

Problem #4: Quitting exercise entirely or never starting a routine because you dont have enough time.

If youre like most people, at least one of these statements applies. Why? You might be surprised to learn your busy schedule isnt actually the problem, and neither is how long or hard you work at the gymits a gap in knowledge. Most exercise routines mistakenly rely on principles scientifically disproven as many as forty years ago. This creates a tremendous disconnect between how people are exercising and what science shows us is the most efficient, effective way to work out and achieve measurable results.

What if you learned a better, faster way to build muscles and lose fat?

What if this method was scientifically proven, so you knew it was effective?

And what ifinstead of the hours it takes to drive to the gym, work out, and then drive back againyour new regimen took approximately ten minutes a day and could be done at home with only a few key pieces of equipment?

Your problems with exercise would be solved. With the knowledge gap eliminated, youd know exactly how to get the body you want, in far less time than you ever imagined.

If all that sounds good, keep reading. Weve done the research and have the science - backed answers you need to start getting far better results with a workout even the busiest people can fit into their day.

As biomedical engineers, we didnt set out to disrupt the fitness industry. We werent looking to debunk fitness recommendations that continue to exist despite a lack of scientific evidence regarding their efficacy. In the beginning, John was simply trying to help his mother manage a medical problem.

Johns mom had been recently diagnosed with osteoporosis. Studies show a fifty - year - old woman presenting with similar bone loss to hers has a 2.8 percent risk of death related to hip fracture during her remaining lifetimethe same odds as dying from breast cancer. Even when death is not the outcome, the statistics are grim. There is a 40 percent chance of never walking independently again, and up to a 20 percent chance of needing nursing home care due to that same potential broken hip.

Johns mother was understandably upset at the news. However, while she wanted to get healthier, she also didnt want to take osteoporosis drugs. Common side effects of those include headaches, stomach pain, nausea, heartburn, fever and chills, pain while urinating, and dizziness. Less common side effects include rare cancers and jaw problems similar to a pulled tooth that never heals, and a jaw that shatters.

Most people faced with this situation would have a difficult choice to make: take the pharmaceuticals and hope to avoid the laundry list of unpleasant side effects, or forgo the drugs and hope to never fracture a bone. Luckily, Johns mother isnt most peopleshe has a son with an avid interest in human physiology, and he happened to have a great teacher for problem solving: his father. With those family members on her side, the prognosis was anything but typical.

Johns dad was on the team that designed and built the Lunar Rover. He received more than 300 patents during his career. He even likes to wear his inventor hat at home, once creating a motion - detector sprinkler system to protect the family garden from scavenging animals that featured water pressure so high it could knock over an adult deer. Needless to say, animals went elsewhere after one experience with this system.