The treadmill is very effective for short fat loss workouts. I’m a certified personal trainer. If you’ve been using a treadmill for long, long sessions, yet have not been able to lose weight, don’t blame your parents or grandparents. Short fat loss workouts are very possible – when you know exactly what to do.
Long duration cardio sessions do not equate to short fat loss workouts.
Longer is not always better. Look around at the gym and you’ll see proof. Most of the hefty people in the gym are on the cardio machines.
Does this mean that overweight people are drawn to cardio machines? Or does it mean that lengthy “steady state” cardio exercise fails in the weight loss department?
Both are true, but what makes cardio exercise fail as an effective weight loss workout is when it is steady state—which means same pace for sustained periods. But how can short workouts be more effective for fat loss?
Hormones. In order to generate the greatest fat burning response in your body, you must exercise in a way that unleashes fat burning hormones. This metabolic response occurs when the anaerobic threshold is breached. In English: The body shifts gears.
These compounds create metabolic changes in the body that include an accelerated rate at which you burn calories. This accelerated rate occurs during the exercise, but also for many hours after. It’s known as the EPOC effect: excess post-exercise oxygen consumption.
Long, super long and even ultra-long steady state workouts on the treadmill won’t produce this effect.
How to do short weight loss workouts on a treadmill? You need to know all about high intensity interval training (HIIT).
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