Interval Training For Maximum Fat Loss

May 5, 2008

If you’ve been working out and eating well for a while to lose weight and reduce the amount of body fat you have, you may find that your weight and fat loss are slowing down or even come to a complete stop. This phenomenon is also referred to as a “weight loss plateau”. It can get quite frustrating when you are working just as hard and are watching what you eat, but don’t seem to see any changes. A great way to get off this plateau is interval training. Let’s take a look at how you can use interval training for maximum fat loss. 

What exactly is Interval Training? It is a type of workout that varies the speed and or intensity of what you are doing. It is easiest explained with an example. Let’s say your workout today is jogging. You can turn your jog into interval training by doing the following:

Start out with a slow jog to warm up. After about 5 minutes, run as fast as you can for 2 minutes. Then slow down to a slow jog for another minute to give your body time to recover. Repeat these two intervals throughout your run.

You can easily adapt this to any other cardio workout by changing the speed of how fast you run, walk or ride your bike. You can also walk up a steep hill in a walking workout or raise the incline on your treadmill periodically. On a bike, crank it into a larger gear to make yourself pedal harder.

Interval training really gets your heart pumping and your metabolism racing, allowing for maximum fat loss, not only during your workout, but also for hours later. Getting your heart rate up will also result in more blood being pumped throughout your body and you will breath a lot harder to supply your body with enough energy during the “fast” periods of the interval workout. Both of these will use additional energy. To provide your body with all this extra energy that is needed to keep your body running during the interval training, you are burning extra fat that is stored in your body.

Give it a try. Go out there and walk, run or bike with an interval training session a few times a week and see if you can’t maximize your fat loss and get yourself of that weight loss plateau.

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