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While at the gym the other day, I ended up talking to a man about a little thing called interval training. He said it was one of the best workouts he had ever done before, and has helped him lose the annoying weight that he had been attempting to lose for quite some time.
Interval training is a cardio workout that is based mostly on your heart rate. It is a combination of sporadic bursts of faster paced cardio for an allotted amount of time, followed by a recovery period to slow your heart rate back down. Your target heart rate will depend upon your age and the intensity of the workout you want to achieve.
There are many benefits to interval training especially with high intensity. These include the fact that the workout doesn’t have to take a big chunk of time. Most high intensity workouts normally last around 15 minutes, but leave you feeling as though you ran a marathon.
Some of the other benefits that people have discovered from participating in this workout are decreased apetite, reduction of stress, higher endurance, increased metabolism, better toning, and even has been proven to show signs of fighting osteoporosis.
Overall, it something I have yet to dive completely into but am willing to try. Whether you are at the gym or outside getting your daily run in, don’t rule out the fact interval training might be the step you need to take to get to where you want to be.
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