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Originally Posted by LancelotsLover
In the book's chapter about getting off the treadmill, he does recommend intervals for 15-20 minutes, then stopping completely for 5 minutes, then getting back on and doing your steady-pace endurance for as long as you want. He claims that the intervals, being anaerobic, use glycogen for energy, but when you stop, your body floods your blood with triglycerides, which then are burned up for energy when you go back on for steady pace. The theory is you will burn more fat that way than with the steady pace only. I don't know the science behind it, though. I don't think he says much about how he came to that conclusion.
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Oh yeah -- that does sound familiar. That must've been where I got that.
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I just imagine that intervals after weights will be pretty killer!
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I got half way through 2B and thought I wasn't going to be able to do the intervals because I was already sweating by the time I got to the BSSs and lat work. But, the sets of ab exercises were a nice break (hard work, but at least they don't work the same tortured muscles) and by the time I got through those, I found I could do the intervals! I got a second wind or something. I was so proud.