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Break Up Your Hour-Long Workout

From Jennifer R. Scott, About.com Guide   September 6, 2010

Fancy a break during your daily workout? It may do your weight-loss efforts some good: Doing two 30-minute workouts with a 20-minute rest break between them burns more fat than exercising for 60 minutes straight, according to research published in the Journal of Applied Physiology.

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September 7, 2010 at 7:41 am
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September 8, 2010 at 3:13 pm
(2) Daniel Zupella says:

This work out advice is something that from my own experience I have to agree with.

I switched my routine from an hour at the gym, where I moved from machine to machine not keeping my heartrate up, to doing 25-30 minutes of combination strength plus cardio workouts where I did not allow myself time to rest–keeping my heartrate up the whole time.

It made a noticeable difference for me for sure.

September 8, 2010 at 10:25 pm
(3) Shane says:

Interval training or circuit training isn’t anything new. It should be common knowledge by now that an hour on the treadmill isn’t the best fat burning workout plan around. Interval training is awesome. I do more interval training and circuit training than anything else.

September 16, 2010 at 5:58 pm
(4) http://holy-grail-body.blogspot.com says:

I do a fair bit of training and for me personally i would find it hard to restart after a 20 to 30 minute break but that is probably my psychology. I’ve always been a believer that resistance training is the best way to lose fat and gain lean muscle with out becoming too big, ie the body building type. But what is even more important is the Nutritional side of things.

September 17, 2010 at 5:07 pm
(5) k says:

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