Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Using HIIT To Get Rid Of Belly Fat Very Quickly

By Greg McKenzie

You know, when one actually considers the vast amounts of money spent on weight loss supplements and various other weight loss programs, it's almost unbelievable that so many people are still struggling to loose the belly fat. On the other hand, there's a perfectly natural way to shed up to 5lbs of belly fat in as little as one week.

The truth is that i struggled to lose belly fat for a number of years. I actually devoured every book on the subject hoping to learn the secret key - the magic formula that would turn my body into this fat burning furnace so i could be lean.

Firstly, I came across a wealth of diets that all claimed to offer 100% positive results and while some do work, at least in the short term, others are just plain dangerous. Secondly, I looked at numerous exercise programs and here again, while some were that weak that they could never show results, others were completely over the top as far as your average person is concerned.

Finally someone told me about interval training and what they told me, changed my life. Why? Simply because there is no other form of exercise comparable to interval training when it comes to shedding fat. In fact, unlike steady state cardio which causes your body to burn fat for thirty minutes, a single interval training session will have your body burning fat for up to forty hours and if that's not impressive, then I don't know what is.

If anyone reading this has doubts then just consider the results of a study which was conducted at Tremblay in 1994. Using two groups of volunteers, one group was put on a steady state cardio program while the second group was put on an interval training program. As you've more than likely already guessed, the results were overwhelming. Those on the interval training program had lost nine times as much subcutaneous fat compared to those who had been doing steady state cardio.

What impressed researchers even more, was the fact that the interval training had actually altered the participants' metabolisms in a permanent way. In other words, even after the study had been completed, their bodies remained more efficient at burning fat.

Now if we take a minute to consider that those tests were done more than a decade ago, it stands to reason that interval training techniques would surely have improved over the years, thus resulting in even more impressive results when practiced today. Even beginners just starting can expect to shed about 2lbs of body fat per week, based on three twenty minute sessions each week.

Of course it's no secret that interval training is intense, hence the importance of easing into it gradually if you are unfit to start of with. No matter what arguments are made, interval training is backed by science and has proven to be the most effective exercise in the world if you want to loose the belly fat. - 15995

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