If you want to lose weight but have been disappointed with your results from yo-yo dieting, as a Personal Trainer, I’m here to tell you that there’s a better way. Losing weight is significantly easier with exercise; it doesn’t have to be difficult or take hours and hours of your day either. You might have heard that cardio exercises are important for losing weight and your health in general. Maybe you think that means you have to go jogging – but who really has the time for that? Well, you can get the SAME fat-melting benefits of running, in a fraction of the time! What’s the secret?

It’s called the HIIT method. Very few personal trainers use this method so they can “stretch” out your one hour session. Why am I blowing the whistle on my fellow trainers. Well, the truth is, I want to help people. That’s why I became a personal trainer, and really I wouldn’t be helping you much if I did what would benefit me most would I? HITT is the method top athletes use to skyrocket their game, and it’s the one program that you should use too.

What is the HIIT Method? High Intensity Interval Training is what you need to get massive weight-loss results in a lot less time than traditional cardio. The HIIT method uses short, intense bursts of exercise, instead of long, drawn out, low-intensity sessions. One popular way to use HITT is to jog for sixty seconds, then sprint for thirty seconds. You can work up several cycles of this, in between short periods of lower-intensity exercise. Do this for just TWENTY minutes and it has more fat-burning power than about an HOUR of traditional running!

If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard of the “HIIT” method, I’ll tell you the reason why. Many of so-called fitness “experts” don’t even know about it; they simply tell people they should just keep doing the same old things, spending useless hours running, and not getting any results. But if this method is not working for you, the good news is that you don’t have to do it any more! Now even if you don’t have the time for traditional cardio work because you work long days, all you need to see results from the HIIT method is 15-20 minutes a day – and you’ll get the better weight loss results!

There are many different intense, concentrated exercises which keep you from getting bored and will give you AMAZING weight loss results. HIIT exercises are a lot more fun and they’re not even complicated! In addition to running exercises, you will learn the secrets of using skipping rope, burpees, mountain climbers to melt away the excess pounds that are weighing your body down. Maybe you probably did some of these exercises when you were younger. If not, they’re really easy to learn. And yes, they DO get results.

Dynamic, intense exercises used in the HIIT method work because they help raise your metabolism. That means you’ll burn calories more quickly and efficiently. These exercises help to train your body to use the foods you eat for energy instead of storing your food as fat which results in massive weight loss results. Yep – skipping, burpees, mountain climbers are fat INCINERATORS. You’ll be shocked at the fast fat loss you’ll see.

The one thing to remember is that the key to this massive weight loss is intensity. The HIIT method takes discipline, and you really have to push yourself and be prepared to push yourself to the limit. If your workout is not intense, you won’t see the results you want. When you’re really ready to lose the weight that’s hiding your great body, if you want to improve your health, then let this personal trainer help you reach your goal with the HIIT method. But if you’re not serious and ready for an intense, fat burning workout – just forget you ever read this.

So what’s the bottom line? Why not give it a try? Would you rather go running for an hour, or spend half an hour skipping rope? The HIIT method of exercise is exciting, takes less time, and helps you lose more fat than regular exercise. As a personal trainer in the Maryland and downtown Washington DC metro area, take it from me, you CAN spend less time exercising and have more free time to do the things you enjoy and look fabulous too! Let’s all Shift into Shape for Life”

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High intensity exercise has been shown over time to be the best way to burn more fat . Part of this is due to the exercise after-burn, also referred to as excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC). This is the number of calories expended (above resting
values) after an exercise bout.
    
EPOC represents the oxygen consumption the body uses to return to its pre-exercise state .

The physiologic mechanisms responsible for increased metabolism following exercise include oxygen replenishment, phosphagen (ATP-PC) resynthesis, lactic acid removal, increased ventilation, and increased blood circulation and body temperature.

It can take your body anywhere from a few minutes to 2 days to fully recover to a resting state . Studies have found that the magnitude and duration of EPOC depend on the intensity and duration of exercise.
  The intensity of your cardio workout has the greatest impact on EPOC as research as shown .

As exercise intensity increases, the magnitude and duration of EPOC increase .

In a study by Bahr and Sejersted (1991), subjects completed exercise bouts at intensities of 29%, 50% and 75% of their VO2max for a period of 80 minutes. The greatest EPOC was reported following the highest exercise intensity (75% VO2max) with 30 liters of oxygen consumed or 150 calories burned.

(Note: it is well understood in all exercise physiology and nutrition texts that for every liter of oxygen consumed, approximately 5 calories are burned.)

In a more recent study, Phelain and his colleagues also investigated the effects of low-intensity (50% VO2max) and high-intensity (75% VO2max) exercise on the EPOC response.

Although the energy expended during both exercise bouts was the same 500 calories, the higher intensity bout caused a significantly higher EPOC than the lower intensity bout – 9 liters of oxygen (or 45 calories) versus 4.8 liters (or 24 calories).

Additionally, the duration of EPOC following the highest intensity exercise was significantly longer when compared to the lower-intensity bouts (10.5 hours versus 0.3 and 3.3 hours). That’s an astounding difference!
Intensity is king when it comes to burning calories as these results have shown . So even if the calorie count on your cardio machine isn’t what you want it to be don’t worry – the real fat burning benefit is taking place for several hours after your session!

One of the reasons for this occurrence is that after exercise your body is restoring its depleted glycogen (carbohyrate) reserves, therefore, it turns to fat for its primary fuel source !

LOOK AT HOW SPRINTERS TRAIN

If you’ve ever seen a sprinter’s training session the one thing you would have noticed is the intensity at which they train . They perform near maximum efforts for short periods of time. This includes their resistance and cardio training. And the results speak for themselves. How many sprinters do you know of that are fat and flabby?