How to Boost Your Metabolism through Interval Training Part 1
If you can engineer your body to require more energy, your body will comply by breaking cells down to deliver it; and that process, referred to as ‘catabolic metabolism’, burns calories.
So based on that logic, something called interval training neatly fits in with the overall plan. Interval training is simply adding high energy burning component to your exercise plan on an infrequent, or interval, basis and as such is a great answer to the challenge of how to boost your metabolism.
For example, you may be at a stage where you can jog for 20 minutes every other day, and put your heart into a cardiovascular zone during this time. This helps you boost your metabolism and thus burn calories/energy. Yet you can actually burn disproportionately more calories if, during that 20 minute jog, you add a 30 second or 1 minute sprint.
Why? Because during this 30 seconds or 1 minute, you give your body a bit of a jolt.
Not an unhealthy jolt. Remember, we’re talking about quick bursts here, not suddenly racing around the track or through the park! By giving your body an interval jolt, it automatically, and somewhat unexpectedly, has to turn things up a notch. And to compensate for your extra energy requirements, the body will burn more calories. Varying your exercise like this is a smart approach to how to boost your metabolism.
Always keep in mind that interval training only works when it’s at intervals. This may seem like a strange thing to say (and even difficult to understand), but it’s actually very straightforward.
The metabolism-boosting benefits that you enjoy as a result of interval training are primarily due to the fact that your body, suddenly, needs to find more energy. While it was chugging along and supplying your energy needs during your cardiovascular exercising, it suddenly needs to go grab some more for 30 seconds or a minute; and in that period, it will boost your metabolism as if it were given a nice, healthy jolt.
As you can see, if you suddenly decided to extend your 30 second or 1 minute sprint into a 20 minute sprint, you simply wouldn’t experience all of the benefits that short bursts bring about. These are clever ways to include in your exercise plan as you learn more effective ways of how to boost your metabolism.
Yes, your body would use more energy if you extend yourself to the higher range of your aerobic training zone. But your body won’t necessarily get that jolt that only comes from interval training.
If you’d like more information on the benefits of interval training to bring about metabolic change read Part 2 of ‘How to Boost Your Metabolism through Interval Training’ on our blog at (see below) www.blog.mightydigitaldownloads.com
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