Where's the "sweet spot"??
I think this may be a good way to burn fat while not catabolizing muscle? Essentially ... right now, using a Concept 2 rower ... I do 10 mins warmup at moderate pace ... then 8 intervals of 20 seconds (Hell Bent for Leather ON!) followed by 10 secs (OFF).
Man ... I tell you ... I do those 20 seconds with just about everything I have in me ... and I'm tired as **** when the intervals are done. But I'm not too sure this is burning as much fat as I wanted it to? Do I need to dig deeper and find more "blood and guts" to put into the intervals or do I need to increase the number of intervals - or perhaps the length of the "on" and "off" cycles?
I want to burn fat while spending the least amount of time on cardio that I can possibly get away with. I'm not a sissy ... I'm willing to allow a 300 pound Samoan to beat me with a baseball bat if necessary during that short iteration of cardio work in payment for reduced time on that boring rowing machine.
And besides - all that repetitive motion with my legs is killing the **** out of my squats and giving me tendonitis ...
I think this may be a good way to burn fat while not catabolizing muscle? Essentially ... right now, using a Concept 2 rower ... I do 10 mins warmup at moderate pace ... then 8 intervals of 20 seconds (Hell Bent for Leather ON!) followed by 10 secs (OFF).
Man ... I tell you ... I do those 20 seconds with just about everything I have in me ... and I'm tired as **** when the intervals are done. But I'm not too sure this is burning as much fat as I wanted it to? Do I need to dig deeper and find more "blood and guts" to put into the intervals or do I need to increase the number of intervals - or perhaps the length of the "on" and "off" cycles?
I want to burn fat while spending the least amount of time on cardio that I can possibly get away with. I'm not a sissy ... I'm willing to allow a 300 pound Samoan to beat me with a baseball bat if necessary during that short iteration of cardio work in payment for reduced time on that boring rowing machine.
And besides - all that repetitive motion with my legs is killing the **** out of my squats and giving me tendonitis ...