Posted by: Curt | Under: 40's/fit, 50's/fit, Diet and Weight Loss, General Fitness, Health, Ladies/fit, Prime/fit, Travel/fit, Youth/fit | (0) Comments
Alwyn Cosgrove has some significant finding from a study on training intensity summarized over on his blog. Basically, high intensity training has the added effect of caloric afterburn vs lower intensity training. You see all sorts of crazy stuff in the gym, but in the end, working your muscles as hard as you can and doing exercises like deadlifts and squats which use lots of different muscles will help you burn fat faster while you are gaining size and strength.
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So we can extrapolate that an even higher intensity exercise (anaerobic) will result in a higher increased oxygen consumption in non-exercising muscles, for a longer period of time than low intensity exercise. And it’s fairly obvious that the oxygen consumption in the working muscles would show an even bigger effect.
Another reason to focus your fat loss efforts on high intensity exercise.
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