Interval Training To Boost Metabolism

Interval training neatly fits in with the overall plan of building up your catabolic metabolism through exercise and nutrition. Adding a high-energy burning part to your exercise program at intervals [i.e. not every time] is what interval training is.

Let's say you can jog for 20 minutes every other day - putting your heart into cardiovascular mode

This will assist you in burning calories and boosting your metabolism obviously. 

Would you like to burn a disproportiate amount ore calories though?

Yes - right? Well, add in a 30 second sprint to your jog.

This will add a healthy jolt to your workout and cause your body to have to turn things up a notch in response to the unexpected increased needs. don't go sprinting round the whole park - this is interval training, not level-10 burnout training..

To compensate for these extra calorie needs, the body will burn more calories for you.

Your body suddenly needs to find more energy to complete an "interval". It will boost your metabolism to find that energy requirement and meet it when given that healthy jolt during cardiovascular excercise.

Your body would expend more calories, but it wouldn't give your body the jolt it requires for interval trainings and the metabolism boost that comes as a result of the sudden increase in energy requirement.

If you simply increase your speed and stay there, while your body may, overall burn some more calories, it won't get that jolt.

Also bear in mind that interval training can indeed last longer than 30 seconds or a minute.

The reason we're focusing on 30 seconds to 1 minute is simply to illustrate that interval training is a kind of mini-training within a training program.

Your goal here is to become healthier and stronger plus lose weight in the process of doing so.

If you overdo your intervals, you'll actually lose time and possibility of greater health and weight loss because you'll require time to heal from any strain, injury or fatigue that could result.