If you ask his opinion to a doctor or a professor of fitness on the best way to burn fat, he will answer almost always the same: We must practice moderate intensity cardio training for 30 to 60 minutes per day. Do not waste your time with this type of cardio training with the old.

Most teachers in the gym you repeat what they have learned during their studies … in old books. Of course the exercise practiced cardiovascular endurance work … but it’s long, tedious, boring and it’s not the most effective.

You see, our bodies are designed to achieve more physical activity in spurts followed by a recovery time and not to force over a long period of time in a monotonous rhythm. Recent studies suggest that variations in the intensity of training are one of the most important.

In nature, all animals work this way. They produce intense effort for short periods … often for their lives and escape a predator. Only humans have fun playing sports “against nature” based on endurance. Most sports, apart from those of pure endurance such as cycling or running, involve explosive movements, short, intensive, followed by recovery periods.

To account for the effects of endurance training based on training from a type “split” look at the physique of a marathon runner and compare it to that of a sprinter. Most sprinters have a muscular physique and powerful while having a low enough body fat, while the typical marathon runner will be bit of a thin, lean see … Fat of course, but not … alternative plans.

Another important alternative plan to consider is the impact of different types of training in our body. Scientists have shown that cardio training to monotonous rhythm maintained for too long and repeated too often lead to problems such as production of free radicals, the wear of the joints, reducing the effectiveness of the immune system, reduced muscle mass, etc … If you were to practice one hour every day bike, think twice, since we now know that there is a better alternative. The training “split”, or variable intensity is related to a better production of antioxidants in the body, improves the response to nitric oxide (which maintains a perfectly healthy cardiovascular system) and increases the metabolic rate for several hours after training, thus promoting fat loss).

In addition, traditional cardio DOES your heart only one type of resistance. If you run from 30 to 60 minutes and you stay in the area of ​​120/130 beats per minute, your heart will be trained at this rate. The variable intensity training is more effective to train your heart to move from a low rate and a rapid rate and vice versa. This type of stimulation is much closer to the type of stress that your heart has to face on a daily basis. A fully trained to increase heart rate are quickly and then recover quickly and efficiently is logically better prepared one heart used only operated at a rate defined.

Most competitive sports such as football, tennis etc … is calling for this type of effort, sprints followed by periods of recovery. We find this principle in more weight training. Indeed, the very principle of bodybuilding is to give everything you have for a number of repetitions, usually between 6 and 12, and then recovered almost completely before starting.

This type of effort can be applied to make your cardio sessions more effective. For this I recommend a variation of the variable intensity training is called interval training.

Two cycles like this will be enough to activate your metabolism for hours and hours. Of course, as you spend less time on the machine with a drive to the old, you burn fewer calories during your workout.
The advantage is that you tire your body less the same time … You are less likely to tiring, the activity is less monotonous and permanent change of pace and challenge make your workout more interesting and much easier to practice often.

“Yes but I want to burn calories to lose weight faster” you’ll be telling me … although it would mean that you have not read what I explained above … but it does not matter, I am here for:

Even if you burn fewer calories during your workout session with a “traditional” cardio, you turn your metabolism so much that in the end you will burn much more. You see, starting the day with sprints of this intensity, your metabolism attack on the hubcaps and the rest stop all day. You will burn and the bulk of your calories later, during the day, thanks to the fact that you rest metabolic activity are temporarily increased.

With this way of practicing your cardio, you transform your metabolism normal metabolism super active. You probably know someone in your life that has this type of metabolism. You know the guy or gal who can eat what he / she wants and never gains weight. This is due to a fast metabolism that burns calories even at rest. Well with this type of interval training into your sleeve, you can enjoy the same effect. It’s not great right?