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a half. You'll repeat this a few times depending on how intense you want to continue. Thats it and high intensity interval training can be applied to any form of cardiovascular exercise. You name it and it can be applied towards walking, jogging, running, biking, etc.

So why aren't more people following this type of training method? Some people are just misinformed and the way they are exercising it will just take them longer to get to their goals. In some cases, its hard enough to exercise and a lot of people just feel comfortable training at a low intensity level. Also, most personal trainers find it a low risk to their clients and its very generic. The personal trainers feel they wont be blamed if their clients get injured since they may be inexperienced. It is true that exercising at a lower intensity level will burn a higher percentage of calories from fat than high intensity but it will not burn more fat. Don't get me wrong and its great people are exercising. All I am doing is just addressing the best productive way to get the most out of your workouts as efficiently as possible. We all have a busy lifestyle so every second counts and I truly understand that we have our own career, friends, and family to take care of. Besides training hard, most importantly I want everyone to train smarter!

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