I am still amazed at the number of people trying to lose the belly fat that has plagued them for years. With people spending several billion dollars in the weight loss industry every year you would have thought that this problem would have been solved. The science is around to enable us to lose up to 5lbs a week in a healthy way.

The truth is that i struggled to lose belly fat for a number of years. I actually devoured every book on the subject hoping to learn the secret key – the magic formula that would turn my body into this fat burning furnace so i could be lean.

The first thing i found was a bunch of fad diets. Most of them really didn’t work and a lot of them are just plain dangerous. Just before we get onto what really works, consider this – in what way would starving ourselves of nutrients ever be able to benefit our health and weight loss? I also found a ton of exercise routines that were just plain wrong. No exercise is really bad, its just that when it comes to weight loss some exercises are canons, others are pea shooters.

And then i came across interval training. With the current scientific research that’s been done on the subject, it is the most effective method of weight loss on the planet. I’ll tell you why – one interval training session will help you get your body to lose the belly fat for up to 40 hours after you have exercised. (I bet you always wanted to lose weight in your sleep!). When you compare this to the 30 minutes you get out of standard steady state cardio you can see how effective it is.

There’s been a lot of research on this. The study that started all of this off came from Tremblay. Two groups of volunteers were put on different exercise routines. One on interval training, the other on steady state endurance training. It initially appeared that endurance training was going to be more effective as they used up twice as many calories than the high intensity group. But when the results came out, the interval trainers had lost nine times more subcutaneous fat than the endurance athletes.

What impressed researchers even more, was the fact that the interval training had actually altered the participants’ metabolisms in a permanent way. In other words, even after the study had been completed, their bodies remained more efficient at burning fat.

If one considers that those initial studies took place back in 1994, it stands to reason that over the years; techniques have been refined, thus making interval training even more effective than it was back then. Obviously, results will depend on the level of training you do as well as the intensity of your training. For beginners starting off with a twenty minute training session and doing this three times each week, they can expect to loose about 2lbs per week

Proper interval training is known to be extremely intensive so if you’re unfit, please ease into it slowly. After just a few weeks you’ll be able to increase the level of intensity which of course means more rapid fat loss. Above all, whether you only need to shed one or two pounds or whether you need to half you size, interval training is the most effective way for you to loose the belly fat which has been haunting you for years.

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