Did you know that 30 minutes
of high intensity exercise produces more cardiovascular benefit than 3 hours of low intensity exercise?
Not exact matches
Plaisance says previous research shows that continuous moderate
intensity exercise does burn more calories, but further studies have shown that people who perform
high -
intensity interval training seem to
produce the same amount
of weight loss doing 20 minutes
of exercise as those who do 60 minutes
of moderate -
intensity exercise.
Previously, it has been assumed that performing more repetitions
of high -
intensity exercise will
produce greater improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness.
For example, longer duration
of exercise or
higher intensity exercise might
produce an effect.
Another big difference between steady state cardio and
high intensity interval training is the stimulus
produced during bouts
of intense
exercise causes the body to continue to burn calories at an elevated rate for hours after the event is over.
Often agility training drills will also be HIIT (
High -
Intensity circuit training)
exercises, which could
produce noticeable results in a minimal period
of time.
Perhaps the greatest single benefit from
high intensity training is the production
of human growth hormone (HGH), which does not get
produced with aerobic
exercise alone.
It may sound difficult to lose this much water, but under normal conditions an athlete
produces about 27 - 48 ounces
of sweat per hour during the average
exercise, and that's not including hot, dry conditions or
high intensity exercise that many elite athletes undergo.
High -
intensity interval
exercise three times per week for 15 weeks was compared to the same frequency
of steady - state
exercise, and only HIIT
produced significant reductions in total body fat, subcutaneous leg and trunk fat, and insulin resistance [3].
«3 - weeks supplementation with LCLT has been shown to reduce muscle damage
produced by an acute bout
of high -
intensity resistance
exercise.»