The 9 Minute Workout Rule

The fitness industry has cried out the importance of steady-state cardio for a long time.

Only now are we realizing that we were wrong.

Short, high-intensity workouts are far more effective.

Here it is: Keep your workouts to nine minutes a day at a high intensity, and you will burn a lot of fat!

Why nine minutes?

The workouts need to be short and intense. Anyone can get through intense workouts that are still just a single digit long.

Since the key to dropping body fat is intensity, not duration, nine minutes is the perfect length to maintain the motivation to push through.

The Journal of Obesity published a literature review in 2011 that showed that women who performed short high-intensity interval training burned 36% more fat than women who exercised at a constant rate.
Short, intense workouts like sprinting caused a recorded increase in growth hormone (necessary for burning fat) of 530% after just thirty seconds of sprinting, according to a British study.
Australian fitness researchers put eighteen women on a short, high-intensity interval plan, and they lost an average of five and a half pounds over fifteen weeks, without dieting. A similar group performed forty minutes of moderate cardio three times per week and actually gained a pound of fat over the same period.

It’s clear that short, intense workouts are FAR superior to long, boring cardio.