Spring Training: New Workout Ideas

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By Greg Presto fitbie
 

Make Your Intervals Short—but Really Intense

If you’re already running (or biking or rowing) intervals to burn fat, try making each round short—really short—suggests Mike Wunsch, performance director at Results Fitness in Santa Clarita, CA.

Even if an interval is 30 seconds, you may pace yourself for the first 10 seconds or so. To keep your intensity high throughout the interval, Wunsch suggests intervals of 15 or 20 seconds each. “It’s only 15 seconds, so you know you can go all out the whole way,” he says.

Toronto trainer Craig Ballantyne, of TurbulenceTraining.com, suggests trying even shorter intervals—just 8 seconds per round of work, with 12 seconds rest in between each. He calls them Adrenaline Shuttle Sprints.

“Australian research found that interval training [performed in this way] resulted in a significant loss of belly fat,” Ballantyne says. The same research group found that these sprints significantly raised adrenaline levels in the blood—thus Ballantyne’s name for the routine.

To boost fat burning and adrenaline, Ballantyne suggests trying this work/rest combination for 10 to 20 minutes straight.

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