If you repeat the same interval routines, week after week, your body will quickly adapt, forcing your body straight into a plateau.
But when you “cycle” your interval workouts properly, a few important things happen.
1: You’ll have way more fun with exercise; and
2: You’ll NEVER hit a wall or weight loss plateau.
Just like you see these ladies doing below, kicking it up a notch and having fun while doing it:
And you’ll always know you’re burning pure fat every time you train.
In a nutshell, here’s how it works:
Just make sure you’re accessing these 3 Metabolic Systems on a weekly, ongoing basis:
SYSTEM #1 involves a series of short, intense bursts of cardio type exercise lasting between 20 to 30 seconds with adequate recovery time between bursts.
Benefits: This releases fat burning hormones (adrenaline, etc.) that helps “break” apart stubborn pockets of fat, and creates the huge 24 to 48 “after” burn.
SYSTEM #2 involves a series of short, hard intervals that usually lasts between 60 seconds, all the way up to 3 minutes at a time, with strategic recovery time between intervals.
Benefits: This is the fastest way to deplete glycogen, which always equals faster fat loss, and it’s the only system that has been shown to increase fat burning results from the other two systems.
SYSTEM #3 is lower intensity cardio done for longer durations of 30 to 60 minutes. But don’t worry. You only have to do this type of slow-go cardio one time a week to get the desired effect.
Although this type of cardio is constantly being bashed, it’s primarily because people chronically overdo it.
Benefits: Using the lower intensity system sparingly will condition the “aerobic” system properly, which will increase your performance
when using the higher intensity systems 1 and 2.
This system also improves your body’s ability to store and utilize glycogen (stored energy from carbs and other foods), which improves fat burning efficiency inside your body.
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