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Interval Training

Good health is something to be desired by everyone. Regardless of the "fads" that come and go in the market place, fitness,weight loss and good health are and always will be the result of a healthy diet with adequate exercise.

My favorite as well as the favorite of a fast growing number or people - doctors included - is Interval Training. I like it because I get a super workout in a shorter amount of time, and the benefits are incredible.

We’re all looking for situations in life where we can reduce the cost to ourselves while maintaining or even increasing the gain. This is especially true where exercise is concerned.

For the most part, we just don’t like to exercise. One of the reasons for this is that exercise gives long term gains more than short term and we are spoiled. We want the benefit Right Now.

As a result we have a tendency to shy away from the "pain" of exercise.

Believe it or not, the"pain" - if your prefer to think of it in those terms - is short lived and when you make exercise a regular part of your day, the wonderful feeling during and immediately after a work out will become more and more prevalent.

Now imagine being able to lose more fat by doing less exercise? A lot more fat and a lot less exercise. Enter Interval training. It is certainly the best method for losing fat. Its secret to success lies not in how many calories you burn during the routines but rather on how many you burn after the exercise and - more specifically - where these calories come from.

Benefits of interval training include:.

1.Losing at least two pounds per week . This is real folks. In fact most cases report more like 3 to 4 pounds per week.

2. Getting a toned, athletic body shape that will be turning heads;

3.Simply unbelievable amounts of energy -more than you know what to do with - all day.

4.Super cardio fitness - endurance that you’ve never experienced before

5.Much better health - super resistance to sicknesses like colds and flu, andsuper low blood pressure..

You’ll have people bugging you for your secret because they’ll notice the drastic changes in your body and your energy level-not to mention your new beach body.

Studies have shown that people who use high intensity interval training lose 9 times as much fat as those who do standard aerobics.

You see.. High intensity interval training triggers "Excess Post Oxygen Consumption - EPOC.

This occurs intensive exercise drains the muscles of their stored energy source. It must be replenished, and it can take up to 48 hours to happen. It is during this time that your body has no alternative burn up your fat reserves. So for the next two days while you sit or sleep at, your blood cells grabbing as much of the fat as they can and taking it away to use it as energy.

And EPOC is only the short term or immediate benefit. Over time your body’s ability to convert energy directly into the muscle will increase drastically. Your muscles ability to store energy increases so your demands for fat release go up,up,up and interval training starts convincing the body to funnel energy to the muscles instead of to your fat stores. All of this increases the more you do interval training, so as you can see the better you get at this, the more of a fat burning machine your body turns into.

An intense interval training regemine consumes only 20 minutes - three times per week. That’s a very small investment for the amount of return.

One study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that after just two weeks of interval training, six of the eight college-age men and women doubled their endurance, or the amount of time they could ride a bicycle at moderate intensity before exhaustion.

Interval training can be done with jogging, cycling, or weight training.

Spend five minutes warming up at an easy pace. Then gradually increase your intensity until you are moving at about seventy percent of your maximum speed. You may feel a slight burn in your legs. And your lungs may open up for the first time in years. Hold this pace for about a minute. Then slow down to your normal tempo for two minutes. Increase your speed again to seventy percent for another leg exploding, lung expanding, minute. Cool down to a relaxed pace for another five.

The faster, more intense, velocity may be uncomfortable at first. Your heart rate and breathing will skyrocket - but soon you’ll be craveing it. Add one/one minute interval each week until you are sprinting a maximum of ten/one minute cycles. Interval training burns fat, builds endurance, speed, and recovery. You will complete your workout sooner.

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