Wednesday, October 22, 2008

20 Minute Workout

If you haven't already discovered the numerous benefits of interval training then please do yourslef a favor and read this article and see for yourself why interval training is quickly becoming the number one personal workout program for both it's fat burning potential, it's ability to build muscle strength and it's cardiac benefits.

Interval training is able to build leg muscular strength and endurance, melt fat off your body and give your heart a good workout simply because it is two forms of cardio in one.

If you're not at all familiar with interval training it's basically a back and forth between light jogging and an all out sprint. Interval training workouts are extremely effective at burning calories in short amounts of time as most workouts don' go beyond the 20 minute mark.

You can do interval training pretty much anywhere so long as you're allowed to stretch out your legs into an all out sprint every now and again without bothering anyone... First you'll want to strecth out. Then you'll want to follow that up with a light warm up. Oce you're warmed up, you can begin with a light jog. My rule of thumb is that you should be able to carry a light conversation with someone for this to be considered a light jog. You'll continue jogging for two minutes and in the meantime you should begin to prepare yourself mentally for the all-out sprints ahead...

Basically what you're going to do is jog for two minutes and then once those two minutes are up you're going to pick up your jog to an all out sprint! Sprint, or run as hard as you can for 2 minutes and then you can go back to your light jog and then again going back to a sprint and back and forth and back and forth.

Interval training gives you a ton of benefits in a fraction of the time it would take you if you were to replace interval training with individual workouts that accomplish the same results as interval training - build more muscular legs, burn fat, burn calories and a cardio workout.

Give interval training a try today and escape the monotony of another marathon session on the treadmill or stationary bike.

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