How to Really Lose Fat with Cardio

There is a lot of debate over which type of cardio works better HIIT or steady cardio. Let me break down what each one is those of you who don't know.

Steady cardio is just going at a steady place like jogging for a half hour straight. Or by going on a treadmill you end up doing this. There is nothing wrong with doing steady cardio especially if you are out of shape and need to get athletic before attempting something more advanced.

The more advanced approach with cardio is doing HIIT which stands for High Intensity Internal Training. This is more like doing sets of cardio. What you do is you start off warming up just like you normally do. Then speed up to your all out effort for 30 seconds and try hard to the point when you are almost out of breath. Go back to a steady pace for a minute or 2. That is 1 interval.

HIIT is known to be the more popular form of cardio for a number of reasons like...

• It is more fun.
• It speeds up your metabolism for a longer time.
• It burns more pure fat than steady cardio.
• The challenge is greater.
• It takes less time.

But you should always start off slow and do steady cardio before moving on to HIIT because it can really be hard to recover properly when you are also doing an abs workout about 3 days a week.

If you have never done HIIT you should make sure you are ready by just doing steady cardio on the days in between your abs workouts for about 20 minutes. Or you can do them right after your workouts and keep your days off.

Now when you want to shed pounds of fat this is a great approach since you do not have to do it for that long. As a beginner you can start doing 4 intervals for a workout and it lasts about 20 minutes.

Burning fat is about burning more calories and HIIT does that better. Just try not to overwork yourself at first and do no more than 6 intervals per workout.

But first start off doing steady cardio by jogging for 20-30 minutes. If you are really out of shape then do 2 30-minute walking sessions every day. This also helps burn fat even though it is not that hard.