While researching ways to shed off some of my fat before summer arrives, I came across this technique called HIIT, which stands for High-intensity interval training. It goes theory is this:
As opposed to running slowly on a treadmill for 30 minutes for cardio exercise, you can burn more fat and calories by alternating your cardio with 30 seconds of jogging and 30 seconds of sprinting for a much shorter period of time.
That sounds pretty good. The instruction says to start off your first week's training by doing this routine for only 4 minutes, and then slowly increase the interval by 1 minute after each week.
So 5 minutes ago, I went down to my gym, hopped on to the treadmill and began toggling the speed between 6 mph and 9 mph every 30 seconds. I could tell that the fat ladies next to me thought I was semi-psycho while they were slowly walking on their treadmills at less than 3.5 mph.
After 4 minutes I was done. On my way out of the gym I swear the people there had this "WTF" look on their face. It was pretty funny!
1 comment:
keep in mind that you can burn the same # of calories sprinting or jogging....but it's what type of calories your body decides to burn off first that counts. Ex.... if you jog 5 miles you'll burn like 400 calories of fat storage rather than sprinting 5 miles which your body would most likely use carbs. You want to target fat energy rather than carbs for energy. You wnat to start burning carbs as second priority.
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