Is HIT the Best Cardio for Beginners Looking to Lose Weight and Burn Fat?

First, let me say that I think High Intensity Interval Training or HIT is actually a great tool to lose weight and burn fat as a shift of balance exercises lower intensity cardio. HIT starts your metabolism to a higher level, keep it there and can burn your body into a fat burning furnace.

However, the concern for me is whether or not the best way, or even smart for beginners to use choice.

We are on the same sheet of music first and we define a beginner. A beginner to me is someone who has a background of less than three months (or six months for some). A beginner is not only a person who is out of shape, no way was fit, or even tend not know what shape it is. A newbie is someone who is structurally weak or underdeveloped, inside and outside.

For example, the leg muscle is comprised of about 26 muscle groups in the groin to the foot. You will discover about 17 muscle groups in the area of ​​the hip joint, which also includes the buttocks. For the beginner are weak or underdeveloped.

Here's the challenge - when a beginner program starts walking-jogging operation, the large muscle groups are involved and initially strong. None of the muscles of lower support really comes into play until the big muscles weaken or tire. This is what it should be - in my eyes fitness without training and certification.

HIT shorts all.

But again, before we go any further, let's talk briefly about HIT for those new to this.

HIT is just as it sounds. It is high intensity exercise performed at intervals. You go "all out" and exercise "maximum effort" for a short time. Say that short period of time is 30 seconds, just to pick a number from the air. Then either rest or low intensity exercise done for 30 seconds or 60 seconds. This is a series. You repeat 8-10 times.

Simple, is not it.

In theory, you can use this method in any given year, it is the upper body, lower body, running, cycling, boxing, etc. In practice, I think it works better with sprints.

Let me explain.

As I see it; you need to go from 0 to 100 mph in 1 second. This eliminates all the exercises of lifting weights, stepper, rowing machines, exercise and so on. Removal is impossible by definition out maximum effort in the first prime representative and one representative each for 30 seconds. The elevation of the initial segment is always easier than the last segment.

Rowers and steppers just do not react quickly enough or pretty enough. Stationary bikes are the exception. You can go from 0 to 100 mph in 1 second but sprints are superior, as I will explain shortly.

Hitting a heavy bag is possible, but the muscles of the arms, front deltoids, pectorals to a degree, and abs are not the main factors that the legs and hips.

And cycling on the road is not practical in mind. After the bike like crazy for 30 to 45 seconds, your legs will be fully drawn, gasping for breath and panting lungs for every ounce of oxygen in the atmosphere - how to stay on your bike, let alone repeat the cycle I need regular. Where you will find a stretch of road long enough to make a total of 10 games without being hit by a truck?

Sprints work because you can find a place to run all for 30 or 45 seconds. You do it in the park, on the trail of the nearby school, street or an empty parking lot. Sprints work because you can go from 0 to a maximum of one second and move on. Beyond the legs, buttocks and hips; also raise their arms like crazy, unlike say on a stationary bike. You work indirectly to your core muscles, shoulders, arms and even the muscles of the cheeks (on the face).

At the end of the race, his lungs are on fire and collapse prefer to continue walking or jogging the rest of the whole lot. You must have exhausted all that you have. It is tempting, no - it is better, because you need to repeat this cycle of 8 or 10 times. It still looks great? Someone wrote that the next day, your legs will be tired. Her legs will probably be much more tired.

Value of HIT is that you continue to burn calories efficiently, in fact, long after the session is over. Contrast that with the more traditional aerobic exercise where your overall calorie burn, stop when you have finished your session slow and steady cardio.

Thus, while HIT should be the method to go, right. Calories burned continuously and it seems that the whole session lasts only 10 to 15 minutes.

Not so fast, wait ...

For a person who has been training and was an athlete at a given time, HIT can be a great alternative. However, for a beginner, hold the body of a beginner is simply not ready to deal with stress and the "pain" to achieve HIT. In fact, a beginner is significantly more likely to be injured in the first training session than anything else.

Back to the amount of muscles in the legs and hips. Now add all the muscles of the trunk and upper body to get recruited all sprint, and you have a lot of potentially weak muscles pushed to maximum effort without notice. You have a situation of maturity and muscle pulls taut.

Once this happens, any progress will not only no progress, but progress versa.

Even on a stationary bike, call me all the muscles of the lateral legs maximum stress too is not functioning normally. It has the exact same potential for injury.

Lose weight and burn fat should have to involve injury to court just burn some calories. And as Lyle McDonald noted positive HIT seem to fall at the end of three weeks or more, while the slow cardio balance continues to pass; not unlike the turtle that opens only way to go.

I did interval training since my days in the athletics team 110 yards edge in high school and the football team. I did my time in the army heavy bag. I can attest to the effectiveness of interval training has been on me to get in shape. I can also attest to the injury and pulled muscles.

The competition that we now have is with ourselves. And while a training session is dangerous and open to risk of injury; we have to minimize as much as possible, especially when there are other options available.

For the beginner, HIT is not the best choice of cardio to burn fat.

Unless you really feel up to it, then by all means, give it a try.

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