There are some advocates of an approach to working out and exercising that say it’s the quality that mostly counts when you go to the gym or wherever else it is you go to do your routines, and not the quantity, or the length of time that you spend on those exercises. Then there are those that say not to focus so much on the quality, but more so on quantity, saying that you can’t even begin to burn calories, no matter how intense the workout is, until you reach that magical 25 minute mark.
Well, that may not be the case, and there are newer workout regimens that preach quality over quantity and give you a butt kicking twenty minutes to a half hour workout that packs as much punch, if not more, than a more relaxed one hour workout. What sounds better to you? One hour or a half hour? I know what they majority of you will say, and it’s what I’ll say too - whatever can save me time in this hectic life of mine is what I’d pick!
There are workouts out there now that offer that shorter, but more intense, more targeted workout, and many people are seeing the results of that too, fairly quickly. One such regimen is the Thirty Day Shred series of workouts by Jillian Michaels, which one of my friends at work is trying out and says that it really does a butt kicking job of getting your muscles sore.
The Tae Bo series by Billy Blanks used to also use this concept in many of his shorter, blast workouts that offered you a sweat-pouring workout in about a half hour’s time. When you were finished, you’d feel like you’d just been in a (hot) gym for about four hours, and yet you watched the clock plainly say that about 28 minutes had gone by. Now that’s what I’m talking about - cardio conditioning, butt kicking muscle toning and sculpting, and all in just as much time as it takes to cook dinner (for some, less!)
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