There is a popularly accepted equation that says that if during the day you burn the same amount of calories that you eat, then you maintain your weight. This is half true; is that in reality, it is very difficult to measure how many calories you can burn per day.
To begin with, the mere fact of being alive is already a way of burning calories. Determining how many depends on many factors. But also, for those who exercise, there is another issue to consider. Calories burned after exercise.
Contrary to what is believed, the body is not like an engine that consumes gasoline when it is running (calories in our case), and otherwise, no. Even when we sleep, the body is in motion. And if we know how to exercise correctly, we can enhance this effect, so that the body is a calorie-burning machine even when we are at rest.
What is Excess Post Exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC)?
Excess Post Exercise Oxygen Consumption (EPOC) is the scientific name given to this effect by which the amount of calories burned after exercising is enhanced.
Research says that the more intense the exercise, the more activated. One study showed that participants who had an intense exercise session burned within 14 hours. more calories than the group that rested all day.
Another study also showed that even though you burn more calories during cardio workouts than weight training, the calories you burn after each workout are about the same.
This comes to destroy, in addition, the idea that an “allowed” can ruin an entire training session. In reality, when exercise and diet are made a way of life, the body balances itself.
How to enhance EPOC?
Different studies have shown that the best way to burn calories after exercising is HIIT, in English High Intensity Interval Training, or “high intensity interval training” in Spanish.
It consists of a way of training that alternates short periods of intense exercise (intervals) with also short breaks.
HIIT is a very effective way to increase your metabolism, causing you to burn more calories in a very short time and helping you to continue burning even more calories after training.
It is also an efficient way to improve cardiovascular resistance and favors the body’s hormonal response, releasing more testosterone and growth hormone and decreasing the generation of cortisol, the anxiety hormone.
Doing circuit training is a good way to perform and enhance this type of training.
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