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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Do More in Less Amount of Time

Exercise Efficiently - More Done In Less Time:
Everyone wants more for less. It's human nature. By learning how to exercise in the most efficient way possible, one of two things are true:
  1. You get more results in the same amount of time.
  2. You get to exercise for less time and get the same results.
Both seem like rather appealing options, right?
It used to be that exercising for increased efficiency meant regulating your heart rate to be in the 'fat-burning zone' of 40-60% max heart rate, or in the 'cardiovascular zone' of 60-85% max heart rate. Now, we know better.
We know that increased efficiency means improving the demand on all 3 energy systems:
  1. ATP-PC - 0 to 2 second energy system
  2. Anaerobic - 2 to 60 second energy system
  3. Aerobic - 60 seconds and beyond energy system
By depleting and replenishing all three energy systems, we are maximizing caloric expenditure, muscular strength, as well as muscular and cardiovascular endurance.
Effectively, we are not multiplying our results by three, but we are exponentially allowing ourselves to burn up to 9x more calories with this approach.

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