Exercise Breaks Burn More Fat
There’s more news about the study that found a rest break between bouts of exercise helps burn more fat. In fact, it has other benefits, too, including more epinephrine (adrenaline) and a rapid decrease of insulin due to lower blood glucose levels.
The study focused on men using an exercise bike and found the best fat-burning took place in a group that rode for two 30-minute blocks divided by a 20-minute rest period.
Of course, this is all dependent upon getting into the “cardio zone” during both exercise episodes, which is best monitored by periodically checking your heart rate or using a pulse oximeter.
Still, who’d have thought that we’d hear exercise news encouraging us to take a break, eh?
aI just love this news! My exercise bike has programmed “rides” of which I’m still doing the first level. 20 minutes of hell. Seriously, I hate every second of it but it’s convenient and probably no worse than any other exercise. I’ve been trying to do 20 minutes in the morning before breakfast and another 20 in the afternoon or evening.
With apologies to the scientists my theory was that if exercise “revs up” your metabolism then mine could certainly stand to be revved up twice a day! (Not that the mere idea of 30 to 40 solid minutes of exercise is excruciating for someone as lazy as I am and the thought of it is enough to keep me off the bike entirely. Nope, that’s not it at all.)
Comment by Annaliese on July 25, 2007 at 1:22 pm
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