subject: Fat Burning Cardio Workout- The Most Effective Method [print this page] Many trainers and fitness pro's often prescribe to their clients who are trying to lose weight or just get better heart health to just worry about keeping the cardio intensity low to medium and rather long at 30 to 60min per session.
Now before you go out and become bored doing this day in and out 3 to 6 times a week, I think it would be really important that you look at some very important scientific facts that they aren't telling you about fat burning cardio workouts.
The very first thing you need to realize, if you are going to get serious about your cardio workouts, is how and what our bodies are designed to do.
Our bodies are designed to do physical activity in intervals of all out activity, followed by adequate recovery to match. We are not designed to move in a steady state way.
Some of the biggest studies today are showing that physical variability is the most important aspect to consider when your training. You can tell this is very true by the way animals behave, they do everything in a intense go and stop motion. Never do you see a animal doing low intensity, steady state activities.
Humans, if you didn't know, are actually the only creatures on earth that do anything in a steady state fashion Doesn't make sense does it?
Lets look different athletes to prove the point
Sprinters and marathoners, both do the same activity, running. But if you look at their physics you'll see that the sprinter carries way more muscle and a all around powerful looking physic, and the marathoner carries a more scrawny and soft look.
This is because of the way the both train Same activity but only the sprinter is doing intense bouts followed by adequate rest periods...
Lets look at some factors when it comes to health benefits of both methods
Scientists have also showed in many studies that steady state exercise, usually defined as 45 to 60 min per session, can degenerate joints, cause muscle's to waist away and reduce immune functions along with adding production of toxic wastes, leaving the body open for chronic diseases.
On the other hand high levels of interval training, with adequate rest cycles leads to increased anti-oxidant production which leads to an anti-inflammatory response and a more efficient nitric oxide response.
Which, in laymen's terms means, that it helps your body to have a very healthy cardiovascular system. And better than that, it also leads to a highly increased resting metabolic rate!
So now that you have the facts, here is how cardio workout would look like:
Warm-Up 5min with a brisk jog
Interval #1- sprint for 30 seconds
Jog Light For 1:30 seconds
Interval #2- Sprint for 30 Seconds
Jog Light For 1:30 seconds
(Then Just Repeat Till You Hit About 15 to 20 Min)
The big message you should get from this article is that you should always be training your body at variable intensities both at high and low levels combined. Because this will lead to the biggest benefits in your fat loss, muscle gain and heart health.
Fat Burning Cardio Workout- The Most Effective Method
