Fat Burning Cardio for Six Pack Abs

Sadly, very few people know that the typical low-intensity long-duration cardio isn’t the best or most efficient way to burn body fat, boost your metabolism and get ripped six pack abs.

They are still hopping on the treadmill and fast walking for an hour at a time, six of seven days a week.

The best fat burning cardio you can do involves cranking up the intensity and doing high intensity interval training.

There is a limitless number of ways to perform interval training and the great thing is you can do a lot of it without very little or no equipment at all.

You perform interval training by doing repeated high intensity bouts (intervals) alternated with an active rest period and you do this for x number of sets.

A great example would be to go out and run 100 meter sprints, alternated with 50 or 100 meters of walking.

One of my personal favorites, that I’ve talked about before, is running hill sprints.

I have a hill near me that takes about 10 – 15 seconds to sprint up it. I then walk back down and when I hit the bottom of the hill I turn around and sprint back up.

Depending on my overall training program I perform this fat burning cardio workout for 5 to 10 sets of these intervals.

As you can see, this is a very short workout. But that’s one of the reason it works. You can’t tolerate a really intense program for a long period of time.

There is always a trade off between intensity and duration.

This is one of the biggest mistakes most people make, not just with their fat burning cardio workout but with their weight training program as well.

They assume more is better and end up over training. This keeps them from making any progress, they burn out, get frustrated and quit.

You CAN’T perform high intensity interval training for 45 minutes!

A solid interval training workout shouldn’t last more than 20 minutes and can be as short as 4 minutes long (not including warm up and warm down which might add another 5 to 10 minutes).

Of course, if you do it right, you won’t want to do more interval training than you need.

After four or five hill sprints, I’m huffing and puffing, sweat pouring down my face and back, my legs wobbly and I can’t believe just a couple of minutes ago I was fresh and ready to attack the workout.

But there’s nothing like the natural high and sense of satisfaction you get after completing an interval training fat loss workout. Besides, you can do anything for 10 minutes, right?

You also need to make sure you don’t do this type of fat burning cardio five or six times per week. This type of training is similar to an intense weight training session and your body needs time to recover.

You can alter the work/rest periods, the exercises, the number of intervals and come up with a limitless number of workouts that will keep you mentally fresh.

I’ll cover more workouts that you can use in future articles.

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