Today it seems everyone believes cardio training is necessary for health. I’d like to examine the proposed benefits of cardio in-depth. Let’s start with the most important reason: heart health. From there, we’ll move on more generally to training, fitness, burning fat, and overall health.
High Intensity Interval training is the idea that if you alternate pushing your body in short bursts of high intensity, and then resting for a short period of time, you can actually increase the amount of weight you lose in a shorter period of time.
There are two types of blood cholesterol: Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and High-density lipoproteins (HDL). LDLs are bad because they are the ones responsible for deposit of plaque on the arteries walls. Deposit of plaque reduces the diameter of the artery and thereby restricts flow of blood through it. Therefore it can increase the risk of [...]