Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Bursts to Burn More Calories

One of the things that research has shown is if you add a short interval to your workout, you can burn more calories. What do I mean by that?

If you are a walker, add 20 seconds of walking very fast to every minute that you walk. What this does is help burn up the glycogen stores in the muscles and the body then begins to burn fat. If you keep increasing this, over time you'll begin to see overall improvement of the muscles as well.

If you are a jogger, add a sprinting interval into your jog.

The best part of this is that once you burn the glycogen stores and you start burning fat stores, the fat stores continue to burn for up to 24 hours.

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