| There a kind of fat that is really difficult to target | | | | low intensity running or walking. This type of training |
| with conventional exercise. It is the fat around your | | | | uses as fuel muscle's glycogen. Although this may |
| internal organs, called visceral fat. It is completely | | | | seem like a paradox, this is the most efficient way |
| different than the fat beneath your skin, the one | | | | to burn fat. As with the conventional cardio, the |
| you poke at and pinch. Visceral fat is a storehouse | | | | body realizes at some point, incredibly quickly in fact, |
| for toxins that can be already causing serious and | | | | that the type of training we are accustomed to uses |
| chronic diseases. The problem with visceral fat is that | | | | glycogen for fuel. So its major concern during the |
| you don't have to be obese to have it. More than 30 | | | | resting periods is to restore the glycogen stores in |
| millions of Americans have it. They look slim but they | | | | the body and be ready for the next session. While |
| are fat on the inside. | | | | doing that it will use other types of fuel that are not |
| This is where your type of training will play a major | | | | very useful for all the other functions. Literally, the |
| role when it comes to your body composition and | | | | body breaks down the stored fat because it believes |
| health. Conventional cardio training, that is 30 mins | | | | it doesn't need it. It just wants to have the glycogen |
| and more of low to moderate intensity workouts, in | | | | ready for the next interval training session. This is |
| fact trains the body to store fat during the recovery | | | | why interval training triggers fat loss for up to 2 days |
| periods. The fuel of choice during this type of | | | | after the actual training session. |
| exercise is fat and this is why this type of cardio | | | | What most trainers failed to see in the past, is the |
| became so popular in the first place; it is supposed to | | | | adaptive power of the body. Our body adapts |
| be the best approach in creating a lean and healthy | | | | extremely quickly to what we provide it with i.e. |
| body. But it doesn't. | | | | food, exercise, stress, any kind of environmental |
| You see, if the body "realizes" that the type of | | | | stimulus really. Also it tries to find the most efficient |
| exercise we prefer and systematically do uses fat as | | | | way to handle the different tasks we habitually get |
| fuel, then it makes sense that the body will try to | | | | involved with. It doesn't make sense, from the |
| restore this type of fuel for the next session of | | | | body's perspective, to keep fat stored if it is not |
| training. There must be available fuel for the next | | | | used for any of our everyday activities, provided of |
| cardio session and it has to be fat. So, during the | | | | course that we are into some kind of training regime. |
| recovery periods, the body stores as much fat as it | | | | So now you know why you must switch your |
| can so that it is well prepared for the next session. | | | | conventional cardio with interval training. It targets |
| And it will do so consistently as long as we choose a | | | | every possible hidden fat in the body, even visceral |
| type of training that uses fat as a fuel. | | | | fat that you can't reach with any other form of |
| Interval training is all about short duration high | | | | exercise. |
| intensity intervals alternated with "resting" periods, | | | | |