High Intensity Interval Training

Next time you go to the gym for a cardio session give this workout a try. It will burn more fat than your everyday cardio on the treadmill.

To begin this workout get onto a treadmill and set it to walking speed. Walk for about 3-4mins until you get the blood flowing through your body. Once you are warmed up turn up the speed of the treadmill to a sprinting pace. At this time you want your heart rate to reach about 80% of it's max. You will run for 1min and then return to your walking speed. Walk for 1min and then once again put your speed up to a sprint. You will alternate between walking and sprinting, each lasting 1min.

Each time you doing one walking minute and one sprinting minute that is considered one interval. you can start with however many intervals you feel comfortable doing but i will suggest you aim for 8 the first time. This should take you 20mins and burn more fat than the long, boring, and steady pace you probably do all the time.

If this is too hard for you you can try intervals of 30secs instead of a full minute. for more advanced people you can try decreasing your rest time to 30secs and keep your run time at 1min. For all people however you want to push yourself all the time. Each week you will want to increase the number of intervals you complete by 1. Once you hit 12 intervals you can then begin to reduce your rest instead of adding more intervals. This is a high intensity workout for you should be able to do it for a prolonged period of time. so don't fell like you have slacked off only doing 20mins when you usually do 45mins to an hour on the traditional treadmill exercise.