High Intensity Training For Women: More Muscle, Less Fat In Less Time

- John Buckland

YOU WILL ACHIEVE A STRONG muscular aesthetic physique along with maximal fitness. HIT with a blood shunting protocol creates global metabolic conditioning and enables you to work your muscular, cardiovascular, metabolic and endocrine system; even your blood tissue. The body is an organism which undergoes adaptive changes in order to be better prepared for the same stress in the future. The body is reluctant to invest resources into an adaptation unless it is perceived as a direct threat to survival. In other words you need to train hard!

Provided that the intensity of effort is high, strength training will fool the body into believing that there is a direct threat to survival and this will force an adaptive change – along with many other changes, one, is increased strength and muscle size.

High-intensity exercise, which engages your fast-twitch muscle fibres, is required if you want an effective aerobic workout and can cut your workout time from an hour down to 25-35 minutes.

When your fast-twitch muscle fibres are recruited, it creates the stimulus needed to grow muscle. At the same time, it enlarges the glucose storage reservoir in the muscle, which enhances your insulin sensitivity, it basically means you can eat more carbs and not get fat!!

Long, slow, distance-type of exercise can actually cause your intermediate and fast-twitch fibres to begin to atrophy/shrink. Along with losing muscle mass, this also promotes the onset of loss of insulin sensitivity. Not good.