February 5, 2012

High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) – What It Is And How To Do It

How to do High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

How to do High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)

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You may have heard of a little something called interval training when reading some fitness related information lately.

And there’s good reason for that. High intensity interval training (or HIIT as it’s known for short) is fast becoming a huge phenomenon in the fat loss arena due to its tremendous capability to burn away body fat and rev up your metabolism in record time.

Recent research has shown that interval training burns 9 times more body fat than your average slow cardio workout, which would be remarkable in itself. But what’s even crazier is that it achieves these amazing results in just a fraction of the time that traditional cardio workouts take.

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Can you REALLY change what you’re made of? (Answer Is YES)

Lose fat 2009

Remember when it was 1999 and we were only 1 year away from the new millenium?

I just realized the other day that it’s now TEN YEARS later. How did that happen? Where did the time go?

The older I get, the more I realize how truly precious time is and how it seems to go by quicker and quicker as we age.

The last few weeks have truly been a whirlwind in my life, hence my no-show on this blog for ages and ages.

But I have a good reason for it. Hear me out.

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