When done at the brisk pace recommended here, walking is mild or
moderate intensity cardio exercise.
Not exact matches
The study's control group who only performed
moderate intensity (65 - 80 % VO2 Max)
cardio for 3 times a week lost 71.8 % more weight during their 4 month long study than the group who only performed 3 times a week of resistance training that consisted of 3 sets of 8
exercises with a repetition range of 8 - 12.
In HIIT, you do short bursts of high
intensity exercise as opposed to the steady, but more
moderate intensity of classic
cardio.
If you want to burn fat canʼt you just do
moderate intensity «
cardio»
exercises like running on the treadmill for hours at a time?
Studies show that low to
moderate intensity, prolonged
cardio exercise has shown to have insignificant effect on long - term weight loss.
For example, researchers at the University of New South Wales found that young women who engaged in high
intensity cardio workouts for 15 weeks improved their insulin sensitivity by 31 % while women who engaged in an equal amount of
moderate exercise only saw a 9 % improvement in insulin sensitivity over the 15 week trial!
HIIT, or high
intensity interval training, is an
exercise that combines high
intensity and
moderate cardio activities.