The Problem With 95% Of The Running Workouts You Read About In Fitness Books And Magazines
A majority of the running workouts you read about in most fitness books and magazines is that they are simply designed for people training for a marathon.
If not that, they involve extreme workouts that require you to run miles and miles on end, which are practically impossible for the non-runner.
Here’s the bottom line: these workouts often waste your time with a 12-week program that doesn’t do a single thing to get rid of the fat around your belly.
But here at BetterBody Fitness, we stumbled upon a technique that isn’t talked about by most (if any) of the “fitness experts” that you know about.
You see, we discovered that the trick is NOT to spend 45-60 minutes briskly walking or jogging and barely working up a sweat, but rather…
You will burn much more fat in much less time if you run in short intervals of low and high intensity instead!
Don’t just take our word for it though.
It was actually The Physiology Society (a group of 2,900 physiology researchers, academics and Nobel Laureates all over the world) that concluded this fact:
16-minute running sessions alternating between low and high intensities actually BURNS OFF MORE FAT than the traditional slow and steady-state 60-minute workout.
And it’s not just them that arrived at this conclusion.
Study #1: East Tennessee State University discovered this in 2001 when they put the HighTensity training head to head against steady-state cardio.
The high intensity running group lost 2% body fat in 8 weeks while the steady state group lost no fat at all.
Study #2: Florida State University helped to figure out why this happens. They too conducted a similar study comparing the two different methods of running.
And they discovered that the reason for the increased fat loss is because the high intensity group burned 10% MORE CALORIES in the 24 hours following their workouts.
Study #3: Another study conducted in Australia had one group of participants follow a 20 minute intensity interval program where they did 8 second sprints and 12 second walks (a REALLY INTENSE cardio workout). The second group did 40 minutes of cardio at 60% maximum heart rate.
Conclusion? The high intensity group lost 6 times more body fat than the steady-state cardio group.
If you read between the lines, that means that the shorter running workout is actually the MOST time-efficient way to run and lose weight!
So how do you apply this principle and reap the same fat loss benefits that these people did?
Glad you asked… Keep reading.
