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During my numerous years of experience, among the best means of losing fat with the aid of exercise is by HIT, which means High Interval Training. HIT is an opposite to the way people normally exercise. You see, most people work out in what is described as a steady state', which basically means, they stay with one pace during their entire workout. If there running, they run at a single, constant speed, if there skipping, they skip at a constant speed, likewise with cycling, along with other cardio workouts. The trouble with steady state workouts are that it doesn't challenge one's body enough. Overtime, our body gets use to doing exercises at this pace, and it no longer stresses your body into working hard, therefore burning a substantial number of calories.
With HIT, you're basically conducting your cardiovascular exercise at two different paces, the first is normal pace, and the other is fast paced. I'll tell you one of my typical cardio exercises that i do more than three times each week.
I cycle for thirty minutes in whole upon an exercise bike. I use a fitness bike during a workout session, and it is one of the fancy digital ones which inform you how many calories you've burned, what speed your going at, the mileage you've travelled etc. Anyway, for my first 1 minute, I'll go at a steady pace which is equal to 90 on my bikes speedometer. For ten seconds, I'll then go flat out, pedalling as fast as I can. After this 10 seconds, I'll then go at a steady pace again for another 1 minute. We're now at a total of 2 minutes and 10 seconds once this is accomplished, and then I'll cycle flat out again, but this time for 20 seconds. After this 20 seconds are up, I'll do another 1 minute at a steady pace. Once I've achieved this, I'll then go flat out, cycling for as quickly as I am able to for thirty seconds now. Once this thirty seconds are up, I'll do another 1 minute of cycling at a stead pace. Once this 1 minute is up, I'll then go back to the start, and do 10 seconds of cycling at a quick as you can, all out pace. I'll then continue this routine of going from 10 to thirty seconds in intervals, with a 1 minute steady paced cycle speed in between for the thirty minutes.
This is actually the basics of HIT, and you will identify that this can be utilized on a number of cardio workouts. It is possible in running, by sprinting, and then returning to a jog, in swimming by swimming fast, after which returning to your normal pace, in skipping, the list goes on and on. The basic idea is that you're going slow and fast as this works one's heart and body harder, than going at a steady pace, therefore burning more calories. Not only does this burn more calories while exercising, but it's been proven it actually continues burning calories after the workouts are complete, throughout the body's recovery period. I guarantee, that if you carry out this for two weeks, whilst eating a healthy diet, you'll definitely notice a difference.
