It's actually not about the length of your workouts, it's more about the intensity of your workout. This is great news as it doesn't take long at all to get your daily fat burning session in! The experts say that if you want to burn fat, then long runs or endless sessions on the cross trainer are not the quickest way to do it. You will still burn fat of course when doing longer sessions, but you will see greater weight loss when you train at higher intensities for less time. This uses up your body's carbohydrate or glycogen stores, in turn boosting your metabolic rate so you burn more calories at rest for up to 24 hours!
Ideally you should workout at both intensities to encourage your body to supply energy from both your fat and carbohydrate sources.
You can do any exercise you want, walking, jogging, running, cycling, aerobics etc... just up the intensity for a minute then lower the intensity for 30 seconds.
Try this quick body weight workout.
Remember to warm up first! You have to really work hard at each exercise, do as many reps as you can possibly do in the minute, when you think you can't do any more, just do one more!
Remember, if you don't challenge yourself, your body will never change!
3 Sets of the following:
1 minute mountain climbers.
Rest 30 Secs.
1 minute squats.
Rest 30 Secs.
1 minute lunges
Rest 30 Secs.
1 minute russian twists.
Rest 30 Secs.
Cool down for 2 minutes. Done!
I am currently following the FIT magazine 100FITDays challenge. It's a plan that promises to get you into the best shape of your life, you should try it out!
Today's cardio with this challenge is 30 seconds high intensity running / 30 seconds rest. Do this ten times and you're done!
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