High Intensity Cardio vs Low Intensity Cardio

Both low and high intensity exercises will help you to burn off body fat. The question
is which is the most effective to burn off more body fat?

Scientists discovered that during intensive exercises, your body burns glycogen,
a form of stored carbohydrates stored in your liver and muscles for energy. During low
intensity exercises, your body will burn a lot of fat.

Does it work? Well, even though lots of people are working out with low intensity routines, you can see many are not losing weight. Why not?

The scientists were right when they said the human body burns more body fat during low intensity exercises like walking or swimming. However, during a high intensity exercise such as running, the body will burn a lot more calories. Even if some of the calories burned are from glycogen, there are still many fat calories burned as well.

When your store of glycogen gets low, the carbohydrates from your food you eat will later get converted into glycogen to fill up the store and won’t be converted to body fat when they are left unused for energy.

High intensity cardio exercise will juice up your metabolism even after you have completed your workout. What this means, is that your body will continue to burn body fat hours after you have left the gym. This effect is nearly non existent in low intensity cardio or aerobic workout.

Accumulatively, your body will burn up more and more calories during and after you have finished a high intensity cardio exercise then it will with low intensity.

You can add high intensity exercises into your cardio workout by introducing some interval
training. You can walk for 5 minutes or so, then break into some jogging for another 5 minutes or so. Then, walk briskly again until you have caught your breath and then sprint for a minute before you walk again. From this point, simply alternate your running and walking for the next 15 minutes until you are finished.

One of the best things about cardio is the more you do it, the more energy you’ll have. Cardio will help you to burn calories, although its more useful for keeping your energy levels high.

Very high intensity workouts are becoming more and more the norm, but you do have to be in shape for this. Basically, you warm up, then you sprint for 10 or 15 seconds, then slow down and recover. You then do it again. You work up to about 8 of these sprints and your workouts become more effective and actually shorter.