Interval Training, also known as HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is a very popular method to help increase fat loss and Men’s Health Contributor Craig Ballantyne uses it as part of his Turbulence Training fat loss program. In this mini-interview with fat loss expert Craig Ballantyne he reveals what interval training is, who can do it, and how to do it properly for maximal fat loss.

Kyle Battis: This is Kyle Battis with Fat Loss Lunch Break.com and once again I am joined by Craig Ballantyne, fat loss and fitness expert and author of Turbulence Training. Craig is going to be talking about something that is very popular right now and that is interval training. What is interval training, how can you do it, and who can do it? Craig, fill us in and give us some answers on those who, what, when, and where’s about interval training for fat loss.

Craig Ballantyne: That’s a good point you make that it’s really becoming quite popular these days and I was using it way back in the late ‘90s when I was just getting involved in the industry and what I was doing was using it with athletes and you don’t have to be an athlete to do interval training.

A beginner can do interval training because all interval training means is that you’re going to do (blank part of tape) for interval and then you’re going to bring the exercise intensity down to lower than normal intensity, recovery intensity for a very short period as well. I like to use this example, a beginner who regularly walks on a treadmill at say 3.5 miles per hour, they would do their interval training at a short, hard interval of maybe 30 to 60 seconds at 3.8 miles per hour and then they’d drop all the way down to 3.0 miles per hour for a minute recovery.

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