Using Interval Training To Lose Belly Fat Very Quickly
Written by Greg McKenzie on November 30th, 2008I am still amazed at the number of people trying to lose the belly fat that has plagued them for years. With people spending several billion dollars in the weight loss industry every year you would have thought that this problem would have been solved. The science is around to enable us to lose up to 5lbs a week in a healthy way.
In all honesty, it wasn’t that long ago that I too, was in search of the perfect solution. An overnight remedy for success is every fat persons dream but in reality, it just doesn’t work that way.
The first thing i found was a bunch of fad diets. Most of them really didn’t work and a lot of them are just plain dangerous. Just before we get onto what really works, consider this - in what way would starving ourselves of nutrients ever be able to benefit our health and weight loss? I also found a ton of exercise routines that were just plain wrong. No exercise is really bad, its just that when it comes to weight loss some exercises are canons, others are pea shooters.
Finally someone told me about interval training and what they told me, changed my life. Why? Simply because there is no other form of exercise comparable to interval training when it comes to shedding fat. In fact, unlike steady state cardio which causes your body to burn fat for thirty minutes, a single interval training session will have your body burning fat for up to forty hours and if that’s not impressive, then I don’t know what is.
To establish just how effective interval training is, a study was undertaken at Tremblay using two groups of volunteers. While group one was put on a steady state cardio program, group two were put on an interval training program. After completion of the study, the results were nothing short of spectacular, with the interval trainers having lost nine times as much subcutaneous fat than their counterparts on the steady state cardio program.
Now that might sound pretty good to you…but it gets better. They also noted that the interval trainers bodies had metabolic adaptations. They had changed the way they used energy and now were tuned into losing fat. Their bodies just naturally went into a process that would lose belly fat.
Now if we take a minute to consider that those tests were done more than a decade ago, it stands to reason that interval training techniques would surely have improved over the years, thus resulting in even more impressive results when practiced today. Even beginners just starting can expect to shed about 2lbs of body fat per week, based on three twenty minute sessions each week.
Of course it’s no secret that interval training is intense, hence the importance of easing into it gradually if you are unfit to start of with. No matter what arguments are made, interval training is backed by science and has proven to be the most effective exercise in the world if you want to loose the belly fat.
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