You see them in every gym. Row upon row of elliptical machines in use by folks who haven’t gotten any fat burning results since Clinton was President. And yet for some reason folks are addicted to elliptical machines and you’re about to find out why.

So why would an overweight man or woman stick to a cardio workout program that doesn’t get them any results? The answer of course is human nature, and a bit of brainwashing too. Since the day most folks first stepped into a gym, all they’ve been told is how great cardio is for fat loss.

But you and I both can see through that lie. After all, if it worked so great, wouldn’t more people be getting results? If cardio worked for fat loss, why are there so many overweight people running marathons? Doesn’t that sound the alarm right there?

Unfortunately, most trainers are completely wrong when it comes to their knowledge about cardio for fat loss. They don’t know about the studies that show men and women lose only about one pound for every 50 hours of cardio completed.

Most trainers have never read the study that showed some folks over-eat after starting a cardio program and even gain weight! And some trainers have never even heard about interval training, even though two studies have found that interval training works better for fat burning than boring old cardio.

So first of all, cardio is almost a complete waste of your time. Unless you like reading magazines while dripping sweat onto them, there’s really no need to ever climb up on one of those machines again.

What’s worse is when you combine long, slow, boring cardio with one of those ridiculous elliptical machines. That becomes the biggest waste of time ever spent in a gym since the day they invented the awful "broomstick twist" abdominal exercise.

Millions of men and women are wasting their lives and getting no results using elliptical machines, and it makes me mad. But that’s human nature. We like to take the easy way out, even when we know better.

It’s the same with nutrition. We ALL know what we should and shouldn’t be eating. Fruits and vegetables are good and McDonald’s is bad. Who doesn’t know that? But it’s so tough to stick to the right diet.

The same goes with our exercise choices. We all know that running intervals is harder work than using the elliptical machine at a slow pace for an hour. And we’re all smart enough to know that harder work equals more results.

However, we’re all human. We want the easy way out. We want to believe that taking a pill can help us lose fat. That drinking ice cold water could actually burn enough calories to shed inches from our waistlines. And that doing the equivalent of a Sunday stroll on an elliptical machine could help us burn fat.

But none of those things work. They are all just classic fitness and fat loss jokes. And ones that too many people fall for everyday.

The truth is this. If you want to burn fat, you need to stop doing long, slow cardio on elliptical machines. You need to switch to interval training, and you need to do that outside, or with a kettlebell, or bodyweight exercises. If you are stuck inside, the treadmill is best, and even the stationary bike is better than the dreaded elliptical machine.

You need to fight the status quo. Just say NO to cardio. Get off the elliptical machines and start getting real results today in less time than ever with scientifically proven interval training fat loss workouts.