One of the biggest unknown and mis-understood subjects within fitness is Metabolic Afterburn. One of the most important things to remember when exercising is that it is not the amount of calories you burn during a workout but it is the amount of calories your body continues to burn after a workout that counts. Metabolic Afterburn is one of the biggest contributors to weight loss and the way in which you train will determine the amount of Metabolic Afterburn you achieve. There are 2 main types of training: firstly we have ‘Steady State Training’, this is where you train at the same intensity for a given time e.g. 20 mins at level 4 on a bike. The other type of training is called ‘Interval Based Training’, this is done by changing the intensity of a workout at specific times e.g. 1 min walk on treadmill followed by 30 seconds sprint repeated several times. Interval based training is what raises your Metabolic Afterburn by basically shocking the bodies metabolism into continuing to burn calories for hours after a gym session.

The intensity of a workout is more important than the duration of a workout. When we train in this way we also change the component structure of our bodies. Resistance training is a huge part of this. Resistance interval training will help develop and increase muscle within our bodies whilst also reducing the amount of body fat we have. The more muscle we have in our body the more calories we burn at rest, this basically means that if we increase muscle within the body we burn more calories at rest. For example, for every 3kg of muscle we gain we burn an extra 300 calories per day, in other words we burn 300 calories for FREE! It’s a win-win situation!