One of the biggest advantages of HIIT is that you can get maximal health benefits in minimal time which allows you to burn about the same amount of calories, but spend less time exercising!
How HIIT Exercise Works and 4 Proven Benefits:
- Enhances Your Mood, Energy, Concentration, and Motivation
When you exercise at a high intensity, your brain goes for neurochemical changes. For example it increases brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is a protein that improves learning speed. It helps with things like learning new languages. As well as encouraging the formation of new connections between nerve cells and neurons for improved memory. It can release happy hormones like dopamine that motivate you, serotonin that boosts your mood and noradrenaline that enhances your energy. Your brain gets a super boost from this training! - Builds Exercise As A Habit
You can establish exercise as a long-term healthy habit!
- First, habits like predictable routines. That’s why you start your day the right way by exercising in the morning, before your day begins.
- Second, habits are formed when there is a reward attached! The intensity of your morning’s training is designed to produce a surge in happy hormones, like a ‘runners high’ people get from cardio.
- Lastly, your hormones start to adjust their rhythm to match the morning exercise routine, meaning your body starts to expect exercise first thing and preps you for it. The combined effect of routine runners high and a healthy hormonal rhythm results in you building an exercise habit at rapid speed!
- Builds Better Fitness Results
In a study done by Martin Gibala at McMaster University in Canada, he found that with just one minute of exercise, a maximum intensity participants improve their endurance at the same rate as a 15 minute workout at a moderate intensity. His groundbreaking studies have literally changed the face of fitness as we know it. - It’s Just A Few Minutes!
The intensity of the several minute morning exercise routine is like doing a 45-60 minutes workout, but in only a few minutes. It’s so effective! Most people using the traditional approach only train at 65% of the maximum heart rate when exercising, but the unique approach of HIIT is designed to help you reach 90% and above because you are challenging your body to a higher intensity and it has no choice, but to adapt by getting fitter faster.
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