Frying Up Some Burpee

Do you hear that sizzle folks? No, that's not someone in the other room frying up some bacon. That, friends, is the sound of my fat burning away.

Pictured: Sizzling Fat

In a recent article from SELF magazine, it describes that "new research reveals that High Intensity Interval Training supercharges your body on a microscopic level, enabling the mitochondria, your cells' powerhouses, to burn fat more efficiently". Now, for those of you who have no idea what that means, I'll put it in easier terms so we can all understand. Doing Burpees and other exercises that require short bursts of energy over a short amount of time can have just as positive of an affect on your muscles as longer workouts that are more drawn out, like running.

Oh Lord kill me now!

So the next time any of you are out there wondering why you decided it would be fun to get up at 5 a.m. to go running for an hour, remember that you could have slept in and spent 10 minutes doing Burpees and gotten the same or even better results.

As usual, I've chosen option number 2, and the results from this week are listed below:

Date	Workout	Sets	Total Time (Morning)	Total Time (Night)	Beak Time Per Set	Total Burpees
5/7/2012	Ladder	12	10 min 46 sec	10 min 52 sec	40 sec	156
5/8/2012	Ladder	12	10 min 48 sec	10 min 49 sec	40 sec	156
5/9/2012	Ladder	12	10 min 56 sec	10 min 47 sec	40 sec	156
5/10/2012	REST
5/11/2012	Ladder	12	10 min 45 sec	10 min 49 sec	40 sec	156
5/12/2012	Ladder	12	10 min 55 sec	10 min 42 sec	40 sec	156
5/13/2012	REST

For those of us that can relate to the following quote, I'll take 10 minutes of high intensity interval training over an hour-long workout any day. Per the well known author and cardiologist George Sheehan:

"Exercise is done against ones wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse."

L&R,

Drew