Build Muscle Workouts

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I bet you've heard it over and over again: it's not possible to build muscle up and melt fat at the same time. You've been told that building muscle requires an increase in calories, while fat burning involves a decrease in calories. This conventional wisdom is partially accurate, but the beliefs are being tossed on their ears with research into interval-based workouts. The fact is, you can achieve muscle weight gain while you burn fat provided that you add interval training to your sessions.

Interval training isn’t new, but it’s more widely understood, accepted, and used these days. Whereas traditional aerobic activities were considered the only reliable ways to shed fat, and the only acceptable workouts for endurance athletes, high intensity interval training (HIIT) has proven to be beneficial to athletes in all fields, and for folks with wildly varying goals.

Old school aerobic activity is referred to as "steady state," meaning that you work up to a fixed intensity level and maintain that level for the duration of the session. During the training session, your body obtains half of its fuel by burning fat, and gets the rest through your oxygen system, and by cutting into your muscle and glycogen stores.

HIIT sessions, on the other hand, involve brief high intensity intervals followed by moderate intensity rest periods. HIIT sessions are muscle sparing and are quick, but are killer. A fifteen-minute HIIT session can raise your resting metabolic rate for almost day, enabling you to keep burning higher levels of fat for up to a day.

In addition to this, because your muscles consume calories during every minute of the day, the more lean mass you have, the more fat you burn, even while you're sitting still. Because HIIT not only spares your muscle, but also helps you build muscle, your future fat burning ability is increased, which makes it a great addition to your muscle workouts.

The bottom line is that regardless of your fitness goals, HIIT workouts can help you increase your overall fitness level in very short sessions. But even better, if your goals include muscle gain and fat burning, adding HIIT to your workout schedule is a no-brainer.

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