The most effective cardio exercise for fat loss

Many of you still look to hours of cardio as the answer to your
prayers - and often it isn't.

Mention cardio, and most people think of hours spent sweating on
treadmills, bikes, rowing machines and cross trainers, trapped in the
gym! It shouldn't be like that, unless you simply love doing cardio.

If you're trying to lose weight (burn fat), you need to make sure that
your cardio sessions are effective. Don't waste your time plodding
along at one speed, believing that time spent doing the activity is
more important than effort.

If you really want to see a change in your body, you need to start
upping the pace. It's time to do 'Interval' work. By 'interval' I mean
a variety of speeds. By upping the speed or the effort in short bursts
throughout your workout, your body will find it hard to adapt and
calories will be burning like crazy!

Here's a little known fact for you; performing cardio at one continual
speed will only burn calories while you are exercising. Interval work,
on the other hand, will send your calorie burning into orbit, as your
body has to work so much harder, and, like resistance work, will keep
your calorie burning efforts sky high for up to 48 hours afterwards!
The results have to be seen to be believed...

Doing intervals effectively 2-3 times a week will see you frying body
fat in less than 20 minutes at a time - guaranteed. First of all,
understand that you will be working to different levels of intensity
within this workout.

3 out of 10 = easy level of work, able to keep up a conversation, and
feel like you are warming up
4 out of 10 = slightly higher pace, where you are starting to work
harder but still not out of breath
8 out of 10 = working hard, having to concentrate and starting to feel
breathless and tired

Try this workout for size and tell me that it doesn't work...

Warm Up: 5 minutes on the machine of your choice, at a 3/10 level of
intensity.

Interval 1: 60 seconds Increase your pace / resistance level to an
8/10 level

Recovery: 90 seconds Reduce the pace / resistance level to a 4/10
level

Interval 2: 60 seconds Increase your pace / resistance level again to
an 8/10 level

Recovery: 90 seconds Reduce the pace / resistance level to a 4/10
level

Interval 3: 60 seconds Increase your pace / resistance level again to
an 8/10 level

Recovery: 90 seconds Reduce the pace / resistance level to a 4/10
level

Cool down: 5 minutes Slow things down to a 3/10 level of intensity.


Start with 3 intervals in the above fashion. As you feel fitter, start
to increase the number of intervals up to 6. This is just one of many
highly effective cardio workouts that you can do to shift body fat
fast.

For 3 intervals you are looking at 17 1/2 minutes, including warm up and
cool down!
Even for 6 intervals you are looking at no more than 25 minutes in
total!

How many of you have been guilty of 40 - 60 minutes labouring away
with cardio in the past? No more!

To get the results that you want, you must strive to work hard and be
consistent!

Simon

Simon Dainton is a Certified Personal Trainer and fat loss expert.
Founder of Fitstreet Personal Training in the UK, his Programs of
Lifestyle change guarantee clients results, combining effective
exercise, nutrition and lifestyle adjustments. For more information
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