Interval Training

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Interval training can help you reach your fitness goals by increasing your metabolic rate, melting your extra weight away and boosting your overall health.

What is Interval Training 

Basically, to describe Interval Training, it is a workout that includes several runs, cycles, rows or any other type of exercise that can be done at a specific velocity or speed that can then be followed by stage of recovery or a less intense activity.

Sprint intervals are the number of runs. This section of the workout is gleaming with ferocity. A person can choose to calculate the sprint intervals in minutes or opt to use meters. They can be as fast as 15-20 seconds or go on for more than an hour. This is based on both the interval type and the precise goals of the person doing the exercises.
An indoor cyclist could simulate a climb on his bike for 15 minutes, or he could perform sprint intervals at full pace for 30 seconds each.

Rest Intervals are the times of recovery. Interval athletes do not cease activity during a rest, but generally exercise at a low intensity, permitting the body to regenerate after the spring interval. The kind of sprint you are running and your level of fitness will determine the proper rest intervals.
The intervals are vital; the interval training is founded upon making sure that your sprints are performed at optimal intensity -- in the absence of sufficient rest, your interval training reverses back to an aerobic-type activity.

The amount in which you push yourself is the intensity of the sprint intervals. To make things straightforward and easy, intensity is typically measured on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the greatest effort possible and 1 being the least.

Interval Training for Fat Loss 

One particular kind of interval training has proven highly effective at eliminating fat from the body. The name of it is High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Multiple studies have proven that HIIT can burn fat and that set interval training serves as the benchmark for fat loss; the participants in the first study supporting the latter fact lost nine times as much as those performing standard aerobic exercises.

The process called EPOC is the secret behind this fat loss. After furious exercise, when the muscles' available energy has been drained, EPOC results. It can take up to two days for this to be replenished. At that time, your body must slow down and burn the fat. The incredible thing, then, is that, for the next 48 hours, your fat will melt away into your bloodstream, getting scooped up along the course of your blood's circulation to be used as energy, no matter if you're resting peacefully, going about your daily tasks at work, or spending time with friends.

The Lose Belly Fat Interval Workout 

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Interval training Tips - Keys to maximising your fat loss 

Have you ever really wondered how some people are able to lose weight easily and others just struggle and sweat but always have that disappointed look on their face?

Imagine you knew a secret or two that made the weight losers into the successes they are. Well if you want to find out those secrets, I will divulge one, however before we start lets first talk about training.


I don't lose weight easily, I can work hard lifting barbells, sticking to a healthy diet and doing intervals through the cane fields for weeks on end without any change in weight.


So does this mean it doesn't work? Course not. I have found that small tweaks in the details of my programs make the biggest changes to my weight loss. One small change and my weight loss starts galloping at a rate and my trips to the scale end up being a pleasure. It's during these times I can see the fat loss when I look in the mirror


One sure way of making substantial increases in the amount of fat you lose from Interval training is to choose bigger muscle groups to use.


Interval training loses you weight by exhausting the energy supplies your muscles store inside themselves. The intensity of the Interval training routine gives your body no choice but to release this energy, but normally it is stored and used only in emergencies. As a result when its used up the body run around in a panic trying to replace this energy.


If you eating a sensible diet there isn't going to be enough energy from this to replace both the muscle and run your body normally. There is however another goldmine of energy, your fat stores, which your body mines extensively to replace this lost energy.


Now here's the secret, some of your muscle groups store substantially more energy than others. Switch your Interval training to these muscle groups and your body will have to mine substantially more fat to be able to replace the reserves that have been lost. These muscle groups are the larger ones, like your legs. It also shows why sprinting will always be leagues ahead of the swimming arm machine


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Beginning Interval Training 

Interval training provides benefits to any healthy person, such as improved fitness, health, speed and stamina; note, however, that it is a very demanding activity one does not want to engage in without the necessary preparation. It is better to have some sort of base before starting this kind of training, since it puts a lot of strain on your body.

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Interval Training vs Steady State Cardio 

Let me ask you a question. Did your last weight loss program involve spending an hour or so on the treadmill or stationary bike every day or so? And at the end of the program did you lose all the weight you wanted to?

My guess is probably not.

Don't feel bad about this, the worlds majority believes that this is the most effective way to lose weight. You just need to head down to the local gym to see this in action. But here's the problem, steady state aerobic activity is not the right workout for losing weight

Now don't get me wrong, doing any kind of exercise is fantastic, but here's the problem, if your goal is losing weight, aerobic training just doesn't work.

Ok, that's a lie, it does work. It just doesn't work that well. In fact out of all the weapons you have for losing fat, it's the least effective.

But how can this be? When you finish running on the treadmill it always tells you how many calories you burnt during your run? Exercise is tiring; surely we must be losing weight? Well unfortunately not, research suggests that after aerobic exercise our fat burning capacity is actually lowered, resulting in an almost negligible amount of fat lost. And the scary addition to this is that the more aerobic workouts we do, the more resistance our body will have to losing any fat.

So if aerobic training is the pea shooter of weight loss, let me introduce you to the cannon.

High Intensity Interval Training has the opposite effect on our physical system. After a High Intensity Interval Training session, your body goes into a 'fat burning' mode and this can last up to two days after your HIIT session. In addition to burning fat right after your workout, it also encourages your body to burn fat more effectively at all times.

Your muscles start needing more energy and the body chooses to send fat there to be used up instead of to your fat stores. The more you do HIIT Training, the better your body gets at using up energy in this way.

The best method to reduce body fat is through interval training. Try this if you have not been getting any results from jogging on a treadmill. You can start off slow and build up over a few weeks; you and your body with notice the incredible results.

Anaerobic thresholds and Interval Training 

Looking to ramp up your performance, increase your anaerobic threshold...

Your anaerobic threshold is perhaps one of the best indicators of your ability to perform. Traditionally an athlete with a higher VO2Max was considered in much better shape; however an athlete with a lower VO2Max but higher anaerobic threshold would be able to go further faster without experiencing muscle failure than an athlete with high VO2Max and a low anaerobic threshold. Although the higher VO2Max would be considered 'fitter', the athlete with the higher anaerobic capacity would be able to travel faster for longer.

Your anaerobic threshold can be improved. High intensity interval training is an ideal way of increasing your anaerobic threshold. High intensity interval training is a routine of sprints and rests. It usually takes no more than 20 minutes but don't underestimate how effective this training is. In fact there are very few exercises that can produce such substantial changes to the body in such a short amount of time.

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