Importance
of Intervals in losing weight
By Greg
Landry (Sincere thanks to Greg for letting me reprint this
article here!)
Finding time
to exercise can be a challenge, so you want to get the most
out of the time you do have. Including "intervals"
in your exercise routine can help you maximize your weight
loss and fitness results.
Intervals are brief periods (about one minute) of more
intense exercise mixed into your regular aerobic exercise
sessions. For example, if you're walking, you would do a one
minute interval of faster walking about every five minutes
throughout your exercise session.
Here's how it will look.. you'll start with your normal
three to five minute warm-up and then five minutes into your
workout you do your first interval, one minute of faster
walking (or perhaps jogging).
At the end of that minute you
should be "winded" and ready to slow down. You'll
slow down to your normal exercising speed for the next four
minutes and then your fifth minute is another one minute
interval. This pattern continues throughout your exercise
session.
You'll derive several benefits from intervals..
1. Intervals can help you to
get past a weight loss plateau.
2. Intervals increase your
aerobic fitness level by "pushing the envelope".
While doing your interval you cross the anaerobic threshold
into anaerobic metabolism, forcing your body to become
conditioned to more intense exercise.
3. Your increased level of
fitness means that a given level of exercise will feel
easier and that you will be able to exercise at a higher
intensity which "burns" more calories.
4. Your increased level of
fitness also means that you will be less fatigued from daily
activities and you'll have more "energy"
throughout the day.
5. Intervals increase enable
you to burn more
calories 24 hours-a-day.
6. Intervals cause you to burn more calories during your exercise session
and for several hours afterwards.
7. Intervals will tone the
involved muscles to a greater degree than your regular
aerobic exercise would.
8. Intervals can make your
exercise less monotonous and help the time pass more
quickly.
9. Intervals will energize you!
If you'd like to put a little excitement into your exercise,
and you're looking for better results, give intervals a try!
Author and
exercise physiologist, Greg Landry, offers his free, "Fast,
Healthy Weight Loss" newsletter at his site:
http://www.Landry.com
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