How to lose fat and improve cardio
by Heather Smith on Thursday, March 4th, 2010 | 9 Comments
This is a general overview of the benefits of interval training and why low intensity exercise is not the way to lose body fat.
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Great information …
Great information that is completely true. A 12min workout with for example pushups, squats and chinnies using the tabata protocol will affect your fat loss more than a long run at a low steady pace.
so do 1 hour of low …
so do 1 hour of low intensity and it will burn more fat?
I hate high …
I hate high intensity cardio. It burns way too much muscle, it drains your energy out, so if you do it in the morning you feel like crap the rest of the day, its tough on your heart and nervous system. Slow, to mid-intensity is the best way to go. The only time when i find high intensity to be useful is when you hit your plateau and you need to get out of it!
Studies have shown …
Studies have shown that if you keep the intense phase of your intervals to approx. 15 seconds or below you will stay aerobic throughout your workout.
In other words: shorter bursts, less muscle fatigue, more fat loss.
More fat loss than intervals at a longer duration and much more fat loss than even-paced ‘cardio.’
Not really. If you …
Not really. If you were to exercise HIIT vs low intesisty for the same period of time you will always burn MORE fat with HIIT. Low intensity burns a bigger PERCENTAGE but HIIT burns up to five times more calories than low intensity thus significantly more fat. Does it make sense?
thats true.. coz …
thats true.. coz when u start doing a high intensity work out.. ur metabolic rate goes up.. n ur body needs more energy.. if u wanna lose weight.. just eat a good food.. wats the point of eating unhealthy food if u wanna lose weight..
1 hour at high …
1 hour at high intensity uses more energy than 1 hour at low intensity.
BUT, 1 hour at low intensity burns more calories from fat than 1 hour at high intensity.
So if you want to loose weight it’s probably better to go with the low intensity aproach. Except if you have say less than 30 minutes to train every day, because if you train so little time at low intensity you get your energy from mainly from glycogen, and not so much from fat.
It all depends…
Have never heard …
Have never heard that. How much fat would you absorb from one Hostess cupcake anyway? It does not matter what training program you do, you have to pay attention to nutrition as well. If you train at a high intensity but eat crap all day long then of course it will affect your fat loss.
I heard the only …
I heard the only downfall of doing high intensity cardio is that afterwards your body readjusts itself so whatever you eat it comes right back even quicker than you would doing low intensity and eating afterwards. For example: 2 people, 1 does high intense, the other does low intense. They both don’t workout at all the next day and eat a Hostess cupcake. The one that did the high intensity cardio gets most of the fat gained right back the one who did low intense. Given worst case example.