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Last night I was watching TV and saw a commercial for the latest piece of miracle exercise crap: The Ab Circle Pro. I won’t even dignify this product’s existence by pointing out what’s wrong with it.
There is no shortage of “secret” weight-loss techniques that allegedly “turn your metabolism into an UNSTOPPABLE FAT INCINERATING BLAST FURNACE!!!” but not all of them are as blatantly idiotic as the aforementioned torture device available now for only three easy payments of too damn much money. While High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is a legitimate form of training to improve performance in competitive aerobic athletes, the way it’s been lauded as the ultimate fat-burning exercise is a myth that is in need of busting…
How HIIT supposedly burns many extra calories is via Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC), which is a whole other exercise myth. The EPOC myth states that after intense exercise the metabolism stays elevated for a prolonged period of time and burns significant extra calories. EPOC does exist, but I refer to it as a myth because its caloric-burning abilities have been overblown.
Continue reading Interval Training: Does High Intensity Burn More Calories?