Benefit of Exercise

If you want to use exercise to burn fat, there’s one way that studies have shown is better than any other, and that’s high intensity interval training. But what is it?

High intensity interval training, also known as HIIT, is a type of exercise that forces the body into going through anaerobic exercise. That’s where the body has less oxygen than it needs for a short time, and so burns more fat. The way to achieve that is to exercise at variable speeds, and that’s the basis for HIIT.

Human bodies are designed to store fat, from the days when it was in short supply. Regular, steady exercise will burn some of the fat, but after a time, if you keep doing it at the same pace your body will revert to storage mode and you won’t burn as much fat.

There are many variations of high intensity interval training; a common hiit workout is a combination of jogging and sprinting. Jog at a brisk pace for thirty seconds and then sprint as hard as you can for another thirty. Repeat several times. Ideally, maintain this for fifteen minutes. Build up to this; not many people can manage that length of time at first.

You will feel extremely tired, or even exhausted after an HIIT session. However, you will have used up a lot of calories, with most coming from your fat reserves. In addition, your metabolism will be raised for the day. High intensity interval training to burn fat will soon have you looking a lot leaner.