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Have your fat reduction efforts reached a plateau? It may be time to
put the principle of Variation to work for you.
The body
is incredibly adaptive and resourceful when it comes to adjusting to any program geared at fat loss; in a word it's downright
stubborn.
  
The only intelligent way to combat this resourcefulness
is to constantly change things up in your program, to
get variation into it and not allow the body to become "comfortable" and readjust set-points.
In other words, if you've been doing 40 minutes of cardio work 4 times
per week for the past three months, then you may have made some great initial progress, but it's not uncommon for the
rate of progress to eventually slow or stagnate altogether.
Your body has become used to this training and it's no longer having as dramatic an effect. The solution is to
mix things up by:
1) upping your intensity (go to level 7 rather than level 4)
2) breaking the routine
(take a week off from cardio work, or shift to two 60 minute sessions, or five 20 minute sessions. Change it anyway you like,
but CHANGE IT!
You should also try to
apply Variation to your diet and supplement programs as well. Cycle your calorie intake, your carb intake, your protein intake,
or all three.
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