Demolish Fat Cells With This HIIT Workout
If you’re anything like me, you consider “cardio” to be a six-letter curse word. I try to avoid cardio at all cost and heck, I’m in the industry and shouldn’t be saying those things. Personally, I don’t consider cardio fun and when speaking to others, they tend to agree. It’s boring and quite honestly after a workout, the last thing I want to do is spent another 30-60 minutes doing cardio. So, what if there was a solution to get you in and out in no time while burning fat and preserving muscle mass? That’s where a HIIT workout comes into play.
What is HIIT?
A HIIT workout (high-intensity interval training) is where you exert 100% maximum effort in short bursts while including recovery periods in between. So rather than doing a steady-state form of cardio such as walking on a treadmill for 30+ minutes at 3.5mph (BORING), you would do an all-out sprint for around 30 seconds with a 60-second recovery where you walk. You complete this multiple times to fit in a 15-20 minute (or longer if you wish) HIIT workout to burn more calories than you would in the steady-state form.
The purpose of a HIIT workout is to keep your heart rate elevated to allow you to burn more calories in a shorter amount of time. You can think of it as being more efficient with your time and effort. You can get in a 15-20 minute HIIT workout and burn as much (if not more) calories than you would doing a slow steady-state form of cardio for upwards of 60 minutes.
However, you need to keep yourself in check and be honest with yourself. If you don’t exert maximum effort during your short intense phases of the HIIT workout, you’re only cheating yourself out of results and benefits.
Why Should You Consider Utilizing a HIIT Workout?
When you look at athletes who use quick bursts of energy versus those who do a slow and steady activity, do you notice a difference in their physiques? Look at someone like a sprinter and compare them to a marathon runner. Drastically different, right?
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The sprinter generally carries more lean muscle mass, especially in the legs, while the marathon runner is lean but does not have much lean muscle mass. Sprinters utilize a training program that resembles that of a HIIT workout. It has very intense bouts of exercise with some recovery periods.
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