Want weight loss? Push your body to the limits

(this will be long)

I know this sounds like some kind of commercial guys, but it's not, it's similar to some military type training that some offer, but it's based on my own stuff that I did all through highschool and college.

I know this is site is dominated by the female pursuation, in the process of getting back
into shape, I have remembered some of the things I have done when I was younger to
shake my body out of it's summer slump. Many women never did competetive sports in highschool or college, where the coaches really start to push the physical limits of their charges, I wanted to share some of them with you guys because I realize that some, if not most of you have never tested your physical endurance limits. Let me explain.

First an example:
Ever wonder how the army takes a bunch of flabby bellied, lard assed ppl and in 9 weeks
turns them into lean, mean 5% body fat machines? It's not so much diet (although the army
does make sure nutrition is met). It's training through physical limits, and it just plain works!

the reason most people don't use this technique is that, quite simply, it sucks! It's hard on the
body, exhausting, and hard to keep up. But if you can do it for a week, you WILL notice a dynamic
increase in not only your outward appearance, but your physical endurance, concentration (it will literally reshape your blood flow patterns, increasing your blood flow and giving more oxygen to the brain and muscles), and power levels. It will also give you a level of confidence in your body you never had before.

In college we had what's called triple sessions or (in the south) 3-a-days. We get up and don our gear and do a full practice, at 11:30 we break and have an hour and a half for lunch then we do it again, break for dinner, then a padless practice at 6:00 to 8:00. All of these practices involved wind sprints, and there is nothing better for working your body to exhaustion!

Now to the actual routine.
This isn't complicated or magical it's quite simple actually. Block out an hour of your day, that's all you need is 1 hour (your heartrate will hit 90% for a good 30 to 45 minutes of this so don't worry about calorie burn, you'll burn 7 to 800 easy probably closer to 1000).
Find a park or open field with flat grass, watch out for rough patches that can turn an ankle.
First do an opening 5 minute jog around, you should make this brisk, not just a warm up, but faster, try to get your heart rate up to about 70% max.
Next start with wind sprints, we will start with reps of 15. Count 30 yards, 30 strides should do, call it 32 or 33 for shorter people. mark them with something (I just make a mark in the grass with my heel)
Sprint as fast as you can, pushing yourself as hard as possible through the end of the sprint, give yourself 30 seconds and return the same way. Do 15 of these, I guarantee by 15 you'll be saying, "Wow, this is worse then I thought").
Next give yourself 3 minutes to rest, and off to the frog jump. Using that same distance, do a frog jump from one end to the other, AS FAST AS YOU CAN. no stopping for breath, just push through it. for a frog jump, you squat until your hands touch the grass, and explode forward and up as far as you can, repeat. do 5, 30 yard lengths of these.
Another 3 minutes.
next is side shuffle. Also same 30 yards, position yourself facing 90 degrees from the end of your 30 yard line, taking long strides put your forward leg out and "skip" sideways, never crossing feet, always bringing your back leg towards your front. Don't cheat, do this fast, keep your *kitten* down, center of gravity low and knees bent. Do 10 of these.
3 minutes rest again
Jumping jacks. If you have a watch, do 3 minutes of these, AS FAST AS YOU CAN, you will start to slow down probably, this is rough on the thighs, but keep going, don't stop even if you pace is nill by the end.
3 minutes rest
forward crab crawl. Same 30 yard distance, get on your hands and balls of your feet with your butt up high, crawl to the end as fast as you can, 30 seconds rest at the end, return do 10 of these.
By now you should be very winded, you should be at about 35 minutes by now.
3 minutes rest.
Pushups for 1 minute, don't stop for the whole minute, even if you have to slow down, never take your body out of a start position, never rise up to your knees, even if you can't complete another one,stay at the start position until you collapse or the 1 minute is up.
2 minutes rest. You should have enough wind back to do your final lung buster.
another 15 wind sprints
DON'T LET UP NOW, ALMOST DONE
Do these as hard as you can. don't take a break, you should be dizzy with fatigue by now. Don't stop, this is the point where your body actually starts to make it's changes! Push through the fatigue, really tell yourself, this is where it counts!
take a 3 minute break, put your arms over your head to recover your wind.
Do a 5 minute jog to cool down.

that's it. Easy right?
Do this 7 days in a row and your wind will increase by atleast 10% and you will probably burn double that of a normal cardio workout, plus it offers some resistance training.

The one thing I stress is the fact that you need to feel the fatigue, you need your body to feel like it's collapsing any second, see those spots infront of your eyes. Feel like you can't catch another breath.
That's the whole point, Your body will recoginze this and immediately put a priority on increasing capacity and muscle strength. If you don't cheat, it WILL change your body.

WARNING: DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU HAVE ANY PRE-EXISTING MEDICAL OR HEART CONDITIONS!

Good luck.