People looking at reducing their weight will be most probably looking at cutting down on their calories. All the general approaches today are to literally cut down the flab, i.e. the dissolve the fat that is present in the body. This is of course the most obvious way of cutting down on the weight. But by no means is this the most correct way. Let us analyze the reasons.
There are two kinds of fat in the human body, let us simply call them as the useful fat and the harmful fat. The useful fat is needed for various bodily functions. This includes the proper metabolism of carbohydrates and proteins. Without this useful fat, carbohydrates and proteins will not be utilized in the body at all. As a result, how much ever you eat; your body will remain emaciated. These useful fats are also needed to circulate important fatty acids in the body. These fatty acids will not move with the blood for the simple reason that they will not dissolve in the blood. Similarly, the vitamins A, D, E and K are not soluble in water. They need this useful fat to get dissolved in, and only then can they circulate in the body.
The harmful fat is the one that does no perceivable work in the human body. All it does is accumulate in undesirable areas of the body, such as the skin of the abdomen, the arms and legs and most dangerously, the lumens of the various arteries of the body, including the coronary artery. Atherosclerosis, anyone?
This is why the approach of most people at stretch their bellies are completely wrong. What they are trying to do is to cut down on the fat indiscriminately. In the bargain, they are also losing out on the useful fat. Consequently, the metabolism of their body falters and their body becomes so weak that it cannot carry out even the simplest of processes. Simply put, there is no tenacity left in the body to improve itself. The result will be that the fat just come right back and this time, it stays put.
The method health experts always suggest is the burn the fat diet technique. When you burn the fat loss secret, you are quite obviously eliminating the extra harmful calories in the body, but you are leaving the useful fat intact. This actually builds your body. You get muscles. Yes, this is how body builders maintain themselves even if they may eat high calorie food. They let the useful fat remain and work upon the muscle. They burn the fat feed the muscle.
Traditional "cardio", where you do long bouts (45 minutes or more) on a treadmill or an elliptical machine at a moderate pace has always been the recommendation of doctors and trainers. Why? Because at a moderate pace your body is using stored body fat for energy. You'll often see this referred to as the "fat burning zone." So, why is burning body fat a bad thing? Have I finally lost my mind?
Your body is a pretty complicated engine, so when the fat is being burned, it says "well, I better save up some fat for the next time we go through this." So, what does it do? It uses your lean muscle tissue to help preserve fat. Now, that doesn't sound right, does it?
Confused? It's really quite easy. You don't exercise to see the results that happen to your body during exercise - all of the magic actually happens after, not during, exercise. So, while you rest and recover, your body is burning the fat. Yeah, baby!
Intervals, which are short bursts of exercise followed by recovery, don't use fat as their energy source. During interval training, your body will call on carbohydrates which are stored in your muscles. The effort that your body needs to go through to replace the carbohydrates stored in your muscle is much more intense, therefore it needs to call on the stored body fat for up to 24 hours after you're done. So, you would rather burn fat for 45 minutes or 24 hours?
Back to oxygen debt - this is how you can judge the proper intensity of your interval training. Simply put, your interval needs to be of a high enough intensity that, when you stop and start recovery, that you are left panting. This means that your body is asking for more oxygen than you currently can provide.
You can also monitor yourself with a heart rate monitor. If your interval was intense, your heart rate will actually bump up when you stop before heading downward.
In 20 minutes or less, you'll be revving up your fat burning engine like never before. At some point I'l share some of my favorite interval workouts with you. But for now, even if you're just walking outside, crank up your intensity for 30 seconds, followed by 60 seconds of recovery at a slower pace for 20 minutes total.
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