If you'd like to accelerate your fat burning process, high intensity interval training is the one for you. This training helps accelerate the fat buring process to a great extent.
The human body needs to burn more fat than it consumes in order to shed calories. The stored body fat is then used to render energy for further physical activities.
Time consuming cardio workouts, such as treadmills and exercise bikes that demand long hours of rigorous fatiguing workout sessions, are the exercises that people usually resort to. Not only do we get bored just after a few workouts, but also harm our joints and overly tire our body.
In order to burn calories, you should go for the high intensity interval training that is extremely effective and less-time consuming. The high intensity interval training burns the same or more number of calories as any other regular cardio exercise.
What is High intensity interval training?
Unlike regular methods, the high intensity interval training workout includes a mix of relaxed, moderate and fast-paced exercises, while also alternating between two intensity levels.
With the help of the intermediate moderate-paced sessions, the body finds the time to relax and prepare itself for the upcoming high intensity session. The human body is, thereby, able to bear the intensity of the workout and sustain through prolonged sessions, not common with the typical workouts.
A regular workout session can include the following exercises:
- Warm up – 5 minutes
- Moderate-paced jogging – 1 minute
- Fast-paced sprint – 20-30 seconds (repeat about 7 – 10 times)
- Relax/Cool down – 5 minutes
There should be nothing that limits you to follow just the exercises above The exercises can be interchanged and alternated as follows:
- On the spot jogging or marching/skipping (jump rope)
- Cycling (vary the speeds to alternate between fast and moderate intensities)
- Burpees
The moderate intensity sessions let the body relax and get ready for the next high intensity session, which accelerates the body's heart beat.
30 to 40 minutes into the high intensity interval training, you would have cast away more calories than in the regular cardio workouts.
Interval training workouts are much more effective when combined with resistance training (using weights). The resistance training should, however, be completed before the high intensity interval training workout session.
When resistance training is followed by typical cardio excercises, your body automatically recedes to the anabolic phase causing hindrance to losing fat. Resistance training, however, can be paired with high intensity interval training to hasten muscle recoup by accelerating the fat break down. Every body building or weight losscurricula must, therefore, consider this training an inherent part for its undeniablebenefits with respect to effectiveness and time.
For even quicker and safe results, follow your HIIT workout with proper post workout meals.
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