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Who wouldn't want to get a great work out in under 15 minutes? I am sure we all would love to be able to get a nice work out in such a short time. And that is exactly what interval training allows one to do! (you may want to read my previous article on interval training.) Interval training is of course more of a methodology and less of a work out program, as such you can use just about any type of exercise for it.
Although you can use just about any exercise for this purpose, body weight exercise are probably best - you can do them fast with relatively low chances of injury. Where as say trying to do Olympic lifts at fast pace would compromise technique and increase the chance of an injury. But let's get more specific and list a few quick and simple exercise you can use for amazing work outs:
1) Probably the easiest of them all but amazingly effective tabata squats - do as many squats as you can for 20 seconds, then rest 10 seconds, 8 intervals. (by the way, Tabata was the name of the scientist who did a lot of research on interval training if I recall correctly) The goal is to get the highest total number of squats. What makes this exercise so awesome, aside from its effectiveness is that it doesn't require any equipment and can be done anywhere, at home or in a hotel room.
2) Running is a great exercise, but if you want to get a great work out without spending a lot of times you can use sprints to do just that. Go to a track field (would look kind of weird if you did this on the street) run a 100 meter as fast as you can, take a short break (up to a minute or so) then run another 100 meters. Do it 5 times and you'll burn so many calories it's unreal. not only that but the entire thing will only take you about 6-7 minutes!
3) Getting a bit bored? Why not combine a few different exercise - you can do squats and push ups where you do an interval of squats for 20 seconds, 10 seconds break, push ups for 20 seconds, break etc. for 8 rounds total, so 4 rounds of push ups and 4 rounds of squats. Same as in example 1, the goal is to do the highest number of push ups and squats. Now not only do you have a fun and effective work out but you are working on different muscle groups as well!
Those are just a few examples of how you can combine simple exercise with interval training to get a quick and effective work out. Better yet, no matter how fit you are, interval training will always be effective - it's just a fit person will have higher numbers. Which makes it one of the very few work out programs that can work well for both unfit people and pro athletes.
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