The 2-Week Fat-Blasting Plan
You can quickly crank up your fat-burning furnace if you follow a simple plan.
Whatever you do for exercise -- walk, run, bike -- just throw in a few short spurts of high-intensity effort. It could boost your fat-burn rate by 36 percent in a couple of weeks!
Turn Up the Burn
Although sustained, moderate exercise does have its fat-burning benefits, new research suggests interval training may be best. When moderately active women did a 60-minute cycling workout -- but instead of pedaling the whole time, they did 4-minute bursts of high-speed pedaling followed by 2-minute rests -- they bumped up the fat-burning power of their workouts significantly, after just 14 days. (Find out how interval training could help you live longer, too.)
Get Going
Ready to amp up your routine? Try these tips:
RealAge Benefit:
Losing excess weight by increasing physical activity can make your RealAge 3 to 9 years younger.
Two weeks of high-intensity aerobic interval training increases the capacity for fat oxidation during exercise in women. Talanian, J. L. et al., Journal of Applied Physiology 2007 Apr;102(4):1439-1447.
