Intermittent Intensity Workouts for Burning Fat

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Hi Health Activists,

Exercise has often been mentioned as a benefit, without too much specific

direction. Dr.Julian Whitaker,MD in his newsletter Health & Healing of August

2008 _www.drwhitaker.com_ (http://www.drwhitaker.com) reports on a study

showing that intermittent bursts of high intensity speeds followed by a slow

recovery pace was found to be more efficient at burning fat and calories than

jogging along at a constant pace.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales,Australia found that when

participants added intermittent sprints to their 20 minute jogs for 15 weeks,

they burned 3 times more fat off their backsides and legs than their

counterparts who jogged steadily for 40 minutes. Additional research shows that

exercising this way improves endurance, strengthens the heart, and has

beneficial

effects on overall metabolism.

To those of you familiar with running training this is called interval

training, but the lesson is applicable to all fitness levels. If you are a

walker,

try power walking (which is walking more rapidly, while swinging your arms

fully for about one minute or two, depending on your fitness level) out of

every 5 minutes of regular walking. The same principle can be applied to

bicycling and swimming, short bursts of intensity, followed by slow recovery

will

give greater benefits than continuous exercise at the same pace.

As your body gets more conditioned to exercise, you can slightly increase

the time given to more intense exercise and decrease that time allowed for slow

recovery. When building up don't increase your speed or distance more than

10% a week.

 

He did not give the citation for the study and I could not locate it in

medline, but I did find one on benefit of interval training.

 

The Role of High Intensity Exercise

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Arnold

 

 

 

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