Interval training and HIIT, has been used by me for over 10 years. HGH, your natural fat burning hormone is greatly sped up, as well as your metabolism, and this lets you get rid of much more fat on the body than simply dieting will. This isn't any new information for the people that already know about interval training. The thing that is not widely known, it that you can better do endurance exercise, when you do interval training.

Great Results With The Interval Training Study

The Journal of Applied Physiology had a study published in 1995, where they divided 16 participants into two groups. For two weeks, eight of the people did sprint intervals, and the other eight people did nothing at all. Both of the groups were tested before and after the two weeks, for endurance capacity. It was found that in this short time, the interval group's endurance capacity was doubled.

Endurance Benefits Greater Than Endurance Exercise

Although we now know that High Intensity Interval Training, certainly increases endurance in people better than those that do nothing, what are the benefits for those who do endurance exercise? Researchers have said that their interval study results are like, or better than the previously reported training studies, based on aerobics training of the same time length. The people in the study, increased their endurance capacity better than the endurance study, in which the people did endurance exercise for 2 hours a day for 5 days a week, or a total of 20 hours.

15 Minutes of HIIT, or Two Hours of Normal Cardio?

It is a little insane, when you contemplate that by doing HIIT, you can increase your endurance capacity in greater amounts, than by doing the actual endurance exercise. For a whole lot of people, this will be a totally new change for them. The facts of the study hasn't become widely known, but the information isn't new at all. Even today, when I go to the gym, very few people are doing any kind of interval exercise. This completely blows my mind! For at least five years we have known that Interval training can be one of the top ways to increase endurance, and for over 15 years, we have been aware that HIIT is one of the greatest at fat burning.

How Can Endurance Athletes Benefit?

For people who are endurance athletes, then it is critical for them to use endurance exercise in their training regimen. The tendons and muscles must be made stronger, so that the pain of endurance exercise can be withstood. My recommendation, is along with your endurance training, also do a mix of intervals. In this way, you can get a great benefit from using both exercises.

What About Everyone Else?

After I do HIIT, I can get more fat burning (click here for my low body fat workout) going on, by doing a little steady state cardio. My body, as well as my joints are also in better condition, so that helps with sports that need me to run for a long time. With an absence of body aches for the next two to three days, I can run for 20- 30 minutes. But, I only do this 1-2 times a week now. You will probably not need to do steady state cardio for long time periods, if your only concern is losing weight.