Yesterday I got another bunch of emails asking me cardio questions and all the time I tell them that interval training is the best way to do it. This can come in any form. Swimming, sprinting, skipping rope, lifting weights etc… It is because of Excess Post Exercise Oxygen Consumtion (EPOC). This burns calories for DAYS after the training ends.
The body needs to get back to “normal” after such hard training… so many things need to be done “inside” that take up extra calories and burn more fat!
- Restore ATP-PC: replenish energy
- Restore Oxygen Stores: increase blood oxygen
- Restore Heart and Breathing Rates to Normal: This takes time and energy
- Restore Hormone Levels: there is a chemical pump that works hard to get the hormones back in order
- Restore Body Temperature: each degree above normal takes 13-15% increase in calorie burning
- Remove Lactate: This byproduct also takes energy to remove
All the programs at the Genesis Performance Center take advantage of these facts to keep you burning fat 24/7 safely. Hey thats just like a late night infomercial… but it works!
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Hello Sir! About exercise like jogging and swimming, why did you say that it lacks of cardio because for me jogging can actually burn the excess fats but i admit that it isn’t that fast but slowly. and as for swimming, I myself enjoy swmming because swimming can actually define the body contour. Therefore, I DO NOT AGREE with your statements saying that jogging and swimming are lack of cardios. THANK YOU!
You can burn some fat but you will also burn your muscles which damages your immune system and reduces your metabolism. When you stop your cardio you will get fatter.
And you will never get really lean with cardio. You can only become a smaller version of your former self. But still with fat.
You can disagree, but I don’t make the rules of physiology. And none of us can break them.
Everybody is of different fitness, so we can’t use speed as a guide. We use percieved exertion where 0 is lying down, and 10 is being chased by a wild dog. You want to run the intervals at about 7-8 and the rest periods at about 2-3.
Assuming you are healthy and can push yourself, it is much harder than 30 mins of steady state cardio.