Interval Training Basics

High Interval Intensity Training – Your Secret Weapon to Fat Loss

High interval intensity training may be the secret weapon you’re looking for. So you are looking for an effective way to burn fat, lose weight or break through a plateau in your training schedule, but you don’t have hours and hours to spend on long steady state cardio exercises. There is an effective [...]

HIIT Cardio on the Elliptical to Burn Fat

HIIT Cardio on the Elliptical to Burn Fat
What if I were to tell you that you could throw out your 60 minute cardio training workout and get even better results in just 4 minutes using HIIT (high intensity interval training)? Could you get excited about it?
What if I told you those 4 minute HIIT [...]

Revealing Your Six Pack Abs: Mistakes Most People Make

Revealing Your Six Pack Abs:  Mistakes Most People Make
by Aaron Ivey ATC, CSCS
I am a little bit of a people watcher.  I look to observe the techniques and methods that people are using to try and get in shape.  Over the years I have observed some mistakes that many people seem to make that really [...]

High Intensity Interval Training: Why is it So Effective?

High Intensity Interval Training:  Why is it So Effective?
by Aaron Ivey  ATC, CSCS
The comparisons between high intensity short duration exercise (HIT) and low to moderate intensity long duration exercise (LSD) continue to spark conversation and controversy.  While there is no doubt that research suggests long, slow endurance type training does have some benefits, can high [...]

Interval Training – Challenge Any of the 3 Energy Systems

Interval Training – Challenge Any of the 3 Energy Systems
At the root of all training routines is the need to make the body more efficient at producing energy for your given activity, whether that is a sport, general health or life.  If you are not training specific to the energy requirements of your activity you [...]

Specific Formula to Charge Your Energy Systems

Specific Formula to Charge Your Energy Systems
In a previous article I outlined a basic model of how your body produces the ATP necessary to power your body.  That’s all great in theory but how do you apply that to your interval training workout?  Each sport or activity has different energy system requirements.  How do you [...]

Why Cardio Doesn’t Work for Fat Loss

Why Cardio Doesn’t Work for Fat Loss

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
www.TurbulenceTraining.com
Cardio exercise is such a strange thing. In theory, it should work
so perfectly well for all men and women, but as anyone who has
tried it knows, the practicality of it just doesn’t add up.
After all, some men and women do cardio 6 hours, 9 hours, [...]

Why You Should Try Interval Training

Why You Should Try Interval Training

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For the longest time, most of us thought that the only way to burn fat and calories was to trudge through long, steady workouts, watching the minutes tick past at a glacial pace. While there’s no doubt that those slow, steady workouts have a place in any routine, [...]

Cracking the Cardio Comfort Zone

How to Get Results with your cardio routine. Crank Up the Intensity – Reduce the Time This is your formula for maximum fat loss. Trouble is, we start OFF doing this and slowly but surely, our results seem harder to attain. You’ve embraced the idea that Long, Boring, Steady State Cardio is just not going [...]

What is HIIT?

What is HIIT?   by Greg McKenzie
High Intensity Interval Training is a certain type of routine used in training primary focused on those trying to lose fat. There are many distinct goals and differences this type of routine has that makes it stand out from all the others.
Only 20 minutes is needed not including warm ups [...]

What is Interval Training?

What is Interval Training?
by Aaron Ivey
The term “interval training” has become quiet the buzz word over the past year. So what is it and how does it work? First off, interval training is not a new technique for athletic performance improvement. Athletes have made interval training a part of their training for many years. Fartlek [...]