Category Archives: Anaerobic Exercise
Burn Fat and Gain Muscle: 3 Strategies That Will Guarantee Your Success
The question arises quite frequently whether you can burn fat and gain muscle at the same time. It can be very difficult. However, it is possible. In fact, you burn fat because you gain muscle. Since muscle burns fat, if you increase the amount of muscle you have the more overall fat you will burn. … Continue reading
Interval Training: How Does it Burn Fat?
Interval Training: How Does it Burn Fat? (The Answer Totally Makes Sense) Traditionally, we have been told by many so called experts that if we wanted to burn fat then we need to train in the “fat burning zone.” According to these experts, training in the fat burning zone is the only way to burn … Continue reading
‘No Time To Exercise’ Is No Excuse
A study, published in The Journal of Physiology, shows that short bursts of very intense exercise — equivalent to only a few minutes per day — can produce the same results as traditional endurance training. The Study: Subjects: 16 college-aged students Protocols: – Interval training group: 4-6 sets of 30 second “all out” bouts with … Continue reading
Fat Burning Bodyweight Circuit Exercises
Fat Burning Bodyweight Circuit Exercises By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS Turbulence Training for Fat Loss When you travel, you worry about missing your workouts and eating poorly…So you must plan ahead for both (apples and almonds for planes, trains, & automobiles)…and bodyweight circuits for “no-equipment fat burning”. And while I have bodyweight exercises that are … Continue reading
Interval Training Burns More Fat, Increases Fitness
Interval training burns fat and improves fitness more quickly than constant but moderately intensive physical activity, according to research by a University of Guelph researcher. The study included moderately fit women in their 20’s and borderline sedentary subjects. Subjects trained every other day for 2 weeks alternating between 4 minute work periods and 2 minute … Continue reading
Tabata Training: 4 Minutes of Intense Training for Fat Loss
Tabata Training 4 minutes of Intense Training for Fat Loss by Joe Tabata Training is a very intense form of Interval Training. The idea is you do as many reps as you can of an exercise in twenty seconds you then rest for ten seconds and repeat. The ultimate goal is eight total sets. When … Continue reading
High Intensity Interval Training: The Scientific Approach to Weight Loss
High Intensity Interval Training-the Scientific Approach to Weight Loss. Okay, I am pretty sure you have read most of the material you could get your hands on concerning dieting and weight loss. Chances are, you even attempted dieting and cardiovascular training at some point in order to shed some of those unwanted pounds. The question … Continue reading
Anaerobic Exercise: Fast Fuel
Anaerobic exercise: fast fuel Anaerobic exercise is when you are exercising at a rate that requires your body to use energy systems that do not require the use of oxygen to produce energy from within the muscle. That’s not to say that you are going so fast that oxygen is not being used. Some people … Continue reading