Looking to spend less time in the gym? Looking to burn MORE fat? Well, if you are ready to sweat a lot, curse (you can use my name!) and feel the burn, you can shave time off your workouts and inches off your waistline!
As explained in an issue of Men’s Health, Research from the The University of New South Wales has proven that Interval training will accelerate weight loss. What’s interval training? Well interval training involves a series of intense efforts (think very difficult hill) with recovery periods in between (think downhill). The University of New South Wales developed an exercise bike workout routine that burned 3 times the fat compared to a group of that only conducted aerobic training on the bikes. Added bonus? The exercise was done in half the time!
Want to have access to that secret, super effective workout? Look now further! I’ve tracked it down for ya. Behold the ridiculously simple (in theory, anyway) routine…
After thoroughly warming up, follow the following workout routine for 20 minutes:
Intense effort 8 seconds
Recovery 12 seconds
Intense effort 8 seconds
Recovery 12 seconds
Intense effort 8 seconds
Recovery 12 seconds
Intense effort 8 seconds
Recovery 12 seconds
Intense effort 8 seconds
Recovery 12 seconds
Intense effort 8 seconds
Recovery 12 seconds
If you’d been following the plan, you would have now cursed my name roughly 40 times completed 2 minutes of a twenty minute interval workout. Depending on your fitness level, you may need to increase the recovery time at this point. There is no point exhausting yourself before half way.
Try to get through as many minutes as you can, every other day. You’ll be hitting 20 minutes before you know it!
How often do you interval train? Do you find it to be effective for you?
yikes. i’ve never interval trained before. i’m scurred! haha. it could be fun though, errr i mean challenging! haha. have you tried before? it could become our new challenge perhaps?
Yup, have DEFINITELY Interval trained, tons of times.
It’s absolutely more challenging than a steady-pace workout!
One of my favorites are Wind Sprints, where you go to a Track and jog the curved part and sprint the straight part. I usually try to do this for at least six laps, and it’s hard! (and then I like to run stadium steps afterward
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