Fitness Myths Exposed #4 "A Short Workout is a Waste of Time"

Fitness Myth #4: A short workout is a waste of time. Who wants to spend hours pounding a treadmill? You don’t have to. Shorter workouts can get you in the best shape of your life and still allow time for work, raising kids and cuddle time with your honey. Mini-workouts – 10 minutes three times a day – are just as effective as a continuous 30-minute workout, according to the American College of Sports Medicine. But there’s a catch: You have to work harder. The key to spending less time in the gym is to keep the intensity high..Revving your heart rate with intervals,plyometrics (explosive movements, like jumping) and a variety of exercises. Another way is doing intervals sprints. I do these a lot both on the treadmill and on while I am running outside of the gym. When I do them at the gym I used the treadmill and set a time of 15-20 minuets and try to do 10-15 sprint intervals at 45-60 seconds per interval. I go hard and fast for that time and then take the speed down and walk at a moderate to fast pace to recoup for my next sprint interval. It's hard and uncomfortable but does the job and works your body beyond belief. 
I have done this same process on the stair master and elliptical too. You go super hard, at a high speed for a short burst of time 30-45-60 minuets and then take the speed down to recoup for the next interval.You want your recovery to be a short amount of time to keep the high intensity, so don't take too long to go into you next interval. If you're doing 60 second intervals then your recovery time shouldn't be more than 60 seconds, and less if you're feeling powerful and want to push yourself harder. This also can be done with your weight training doing supersets and trisets keeping the intensity high and rest periods short. Keep your body moving and push hard in those shorter burst of energy. It's explosive and powerful and makes you really sweat. Try incorporating these in your weekly training and or on the days you may not have a lot of time to workout. If you have at least 15-20 minuets you have enough time to do a HIIT workout. So, there's not excuse to not workout. Instead there's every reason to workout and create the fit, healthy awesome body you want and deserve to have.

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