Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Fat Burning Myth BUSTED [TABATA TRAINING]

Ever heard someone tell you that low-intensity, long-duration exercise is the best strategy for fat loss? It's a common belief and it turns out to be wrong.

Before you got sprinting out the door - while I really support this sort of training (and do weights in a simple form of Tabata training) - it can have the following harmful effects:
1) you can easily injure yourself in an all out effort
2) training the next day won't be easy on sore muscles

So train at an intensity that allows to train soon
clipped from www.squidoo.com
A study was then done at Physical Activities Sciences Laboratory, Laval University, Quebec, Canada, and challenged the common belief among health professionals that low-intensity, long-duration exercise is the best program for fat loss. They compared the impact of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise and high-intensity aerobics on fat loss.
The bottom line was that the low intensity group burned more calories during their workouts almost twice as many.
But the high intensity group got 9 times more fat loss benefit for every calorie burned while exercising.
How did this happen? Compared to moderate-intensity endurance exercise, high- intensity intermittent exercise causes more calories and fat to be burned following the workout. They also said it may be that appetite is suppressed more following intense intervals.
The high intensity training raises the metabolic rate causing you to burn more calories after your training is long over with.
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