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Shredding Kilograms Off Your Hips: Why High Intensity Interval Training Is The Most Effective Routine To Melt Away Belly Fat

17th December, 2008 - Posted by health news - No Comments

A lot of people are looking for a great way to reduce belly fat. I’ve spent hours in the gym, there isn’t a workout I haven’t tried. So when it comes to weight loss I can tell you with absolute sincerity that every exercise works for fat loss. So all of them work. except some will your entire life to work, while others are supercharged.

Now if you were trying to lose belly fat, you wouldn’t in your right mind spend all of your time doing the exercises that would take forever?

60 minutes a week of the more effective workouts will lose more weight then ten standard cardio sessions.

So what are the best lose belly fat exercises? These are a special set of workouts that will enable your elevated metabolism to lose weight for up to two days from one exercise session. That means you have found the answer to losing belly fat while taking a nap.

The secret of this long term fat burning lies in a process called EPOC. This occurs when you use up your muscles energy reserves and your body goes into a process of breaking down fat stores to resupply the body with the energy that it lost.

This kind of fat burning only happens when you do exercise like interval training or resistance training, anything that brings about an anaerobic state.

The groundbreaking research on interval training was done by Trembley, in that experiment it was found that interval training burnt nine times more fat than ordinary steady state exercise. Additional research has taken that first discovery a long way, a lot has been added to make it even more effective for weight loss. The more advanced workouts can lose around 2 kilograms a week.

High intensity interval training is a mixture of very intense exercise for a brief period of time followed by a rest. Your rest is a vital part of this, its important as you need to put everything into the sprints. The more intense your interval, the more reserves you use and the longer your body stays in epoc. Just starting with 20 minutes 3 times a week will make a visible difference to your weight loss.