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IT AIN'T NEW BUT IT WORKS!

High intensity interval training has been around for a 100 years but has had a major resurgence over the past 10 years, owing in large part, to a heap of research papers extolling its benefits.

A Canadian study tested the long held belief among most exercise and medical professionals that long, slow cardio at a low intensity is superior for fat loss. In fact, they compared the impact of moderate/low intensity to high intensity interval training in hopes of finding what was superior for fat loss.

One group did 20 weeks of endurance training while the other group did 15 weeks of high intensity interval training. The cost of total energy expenditure was much higher in the endurance training group than in the interval group.

They found that the endurance group burned nearly twice the amount of calories during training than did the interval group. Lo and behold, skin fold measurements showed the interval training group lost more body fat than the endurance training group.

This may not seem to make sense at first glance, but the team found, “When the difference in the total energy cost of the program was taken into account...the subcutaneous fat loss was nine fold greater in the HIIT (interval training) program than in the ET (endurance training) program.”

In layman’s terms, interval training trumped long, slow cardio for fat loss! The interval trainees got nine times the fat loss for every calorie burned during training.