Generally people want to lose weight for two main reasons; to feel better (improved health) and to look better. Given this, more than wanting to lose weight, it is actually losing fat that will really give them the results they are after.
Your ability to lose fat is dependent on your body's ability to burn fat. Your body stores fat and carbohydrate to ensure that it has an adequate fuel supply to meet the energy needs of the cell processes at rest and during exercise. Due mainly to a combination of genetic and lifestyle factors we all store and burn fat differently. Some dietary and lifestyle habits result in slower fat burning while others result in faster fat burning. Whoever we are it is possible to train our body to burn fat faster.
For starters, just simply exercising at a moderate intensity will increase the rate at which a person's body burns fat. However, science has taught us that we can improve our fat burning ability much faster by using Interval Training. Would you like to increase the amount of fat you burn per minute of exercise and not just that, but also increase the amount of fat you burn while you are resting? Well, you can!
Interval Training involves switching between high and low intensities in the one workout. One example of an interval session on an exercise bike, after a 5 minute warm up, is:
1 minute increased resistance and pedal rate (working near your max)
4 minutes decreased resistance, easy, letting heart rate come right down
Repeat 5 times
This adds up to a total of 30 minutes workout. Studies have shown that when interval training is done correctly, just a few times a week, there are measurable increases in a person's ability to burn fat in just 2 weeks!
Of course any weight loss (or fat loss) program needs to include lower intensity fat burning exercise as well as other lifestyle adjustments, including getting adequate nutrition. However, by also including Interval Training you can increase the amount of fat you burn every minute of the day.
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