Burning Fat Information
The Tabata Protocol
Dr. Izumi Tabata went on a mission to find a training method that would improve skaters’ anaerobic capacity at the same time as it spared their muscle tissue and burned fat.
He performed a study at the National Institute of Fitness and Sport in Tokyo, and the golden method he found consisted of super intense interval training - also known as the Tabata protocol.
The Tabata protocol calls for 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest. You perform one single exercise back-to-back 8 times before switching to another exercise.
Many trainers tend to mix this up with circuit training, where you move from exercise to exercise and then rest when the whole circuit is completed, and that is wrong. Circuit training and Tabata protocol is two opposite things, so don’t mix it up.
With the Tabata protocol, if you decide to add more exercises to the workout, start the next exercise immediately after the last 10 seconds of rest. Note: There is no extra rest after completion of an exercise.
Below is a 12-minute Tabata workout that will have you on your knees! Literally! (This workout is NOT for beginners- do not...
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Secrets of Food That Will Increase Your Metabolism
Metabolism can simply be described as the amount of energy the body uses to burn off food you have eaten -in short, it converts food into energy to burn. Your metabolism is constant, it never stops, only slowing down or speeding up according to signals you give through your food intake. While the actual metabolic process consists of thousands of chemical reactions, the process is actually quite simple and can be altered through adjustments in your diet.
If you have struggled through dieting to increase muscle while losing fat, it is highly likely to be a direct result of your metabolic rate actually slowing down and storing fat instead of speeding up. The change is likely attributed to many of the fad diets that are out there today. The fact is your metabolism feeds off of two main sources of energy - protein and carbohydrates.
Through the reduced protein and carbohydrate diet plans, your metabolism does not receive the fuel required to speed up the rate of processing food. Actually, your metabolic rate will decrease, and signals will be sent through your body of possible starvation, and fat storage is intensified. In essence, your body is going into survival mode,...
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