How To Burn Belly Fat Fast (and Shrink Your Thighs)

A widespread and overrated way to lose cellulite, burn belly fat, and shrink your thighs, is doing cardio.

However, research shows that there is a better, easier and more effective way to achieve a toned body called: interval training.

How To Burn Belly Fat Fast & Shrink Your Thighs

Leading fitness experts do agree that interval training is the fastest and most effective solution to burn fat… if you do it right…

So, what do you do to lose belly fat?
Lots of crunches?

And how do you shrink your thighs?
By reaching for the ThighMaster?

As you might have suspected those are not the right choices.

Burning fat fast involves interval training and it is not some complicated form of exercise… just the opposite.

Interval training is pretty flexible and can be done in the open, or on your bike, or with machines. In general, it is like cardio, only somewhat “harder” (but also shorter).

You basically follow a hard-easy exercise pattern, which can be repeated up to 6 times in a row and after that you are done. (Remember to always warm up first).

The “hard” exercise period can be between 10 and 60 seconds long, and the easy interval should last ca. 2-3 times as long. At the end of your session you need to do a gradual cool down. When you first do interval training, don’t reach too far, start conservative and build up with the following sessions.

Interval training exercises should be done 3 times per week (four at the most). You need to regularly benefit from some days off.

This doesn’t mean you mustn’t stay active on these days off. Just have fun and go about a little, without stressing about it.

You may actually never need to do boring cardio again (unless you really love it).

A short, 20-minute interval-training program three times per week is all you need to lose a few inches from your thighs and burn belly fat.

Studies confirm the effectiveness too.

Australian researchers from the University of New South Wales did a study putting three groups of women on an exercise program developed to help them lose fat in 15-weeks.

One of the groups was the control group. Another group did three sessions per week of slow, long and pretty boring cardio (40 minute workouts). The third group did also three sessions per week but of interval training workouts fitted within just 20 minutes.

In the study participated forty-five women who were not all overweight. The average body mass index was healthy: only 23.22 (note that the critical index indicating excess weight is 25).

When the 15 weeks passed, there was progress only with the group that did interval training. In that group all participants experienced weight loss. Their body fat and trunk fat had decreased. Their legs had also lost fat. And the subjects with the higher mass index were the ones that benefitted most from the interval-training program.

The other group subjected to the slow and long cardio workouts did not show significant body fat loss.

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