Cardio Workouts to Burn Fat
December 29, 2009
Here is something which is going to alter the way you think about cardio. There are 5 easy workouts which enable you to reduce tummy fat. Before that, we can have a glimpse of archaic ways.
As per the old school of cardio, one needs longer time to burn fat. Nevertheless, there are people who have spent an hour or even more than that per workout and still not lost fat. In fact, it is unknown why it does not work, but latest research found that women doing one hour low power cardio did not lose belly fat even after 10 weeks. Hence it is proved that slow cardio is not the best way to burn fat. Actually, researchers say high-intensity cardio enables to burn fat but you need to really work hard and hence its still not the best, though it burns fat.
An improved way is to employ interval training. This is the third way to reduce fat. In a study, compared to the above two methods, interval training workout enabled people to lose considerable amount of belly fat. In interval training you do the usual warm up and then swap between hard and easy exercises and then cool down. This procedure takes only 20 minutes.
An example of interval cardio is, do a 5 minute warm up and then do rigorously for one minute, then slow down the next minute and then cool down. Repeat this cycle for almost 5-6 times.
Fourth method is the tabata cardio. Once the interval workout started gaining recognition, trainers started researching for other shortcuts. The Japanese did something called the “Tabata Protocol”, and felt it gives better results than the interval method. In this you do a warm-up, then 20 seconds of rigorous workout followed by 10 seconds of recuperation. Do again for 8 times.
Fifth method is called the bodyweight circuit cardio. Similar to intervals and Tabata workouts, this is not actually “cardio”; yet, these are improved workouts to burn fat. In this you start with a fast and simple exercise, like Jumping Jacks. Then swap between three lower and upper bodyweight workouts; like pushups, squats, lunges, chin ups, whole body exercises like mountain climbers. At last, end with a total body workout like jumping or running in place.
Of the 5 mentioned above, first two are conventional, long and least efficient. The other workouts are the paramount ways to reduce tummy fat.
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