Given Marc's huge topic
about afterburn of resistance training and efficacy of HIIT cardio, I'd like to indicate that Bikram yoga (and possibly other kinds I haven't attempted) includes a good deal of strength training (mostly the largest muscles i.e. legs, core and lower back with upper body coming as you go heavier) and feels pretty much like a high intensity cardio work out for perhaps 60 - 70 of the 90 minutes — as well as the other advantages.
You hear it everywhere: «It's all
about the afterburn effect.»
Not exact matches
I also wrote
about that recently, and you can read that here — Harnessing the
Afterburn Effect with EPOC Training.
Remember, it's
about intensity, traditional cardio will give you very little
afterburn effect.
This is what the
afterburn effect is all
about — creating an environment that causes your body to need additional fuel to recover from an intense workout.
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