This Is The Best Way To Burn More Calories While Exercising

This almost sounds too good to be true, you can actually take a break during your grueling workout and burn more calories? We have always been told that if there is no pain, there’s no gain. Perhaps we don’t have to go all out all the time after all.

When most of us hit the treadmill or elliptical machines, rowing machines and bikes, we feel as though we must keep up a pace that will help us burn calories while we burn out.
Now it appears that we have been doing it wrong all this time.

If working out in 10-second bursts sounds appealing, we've got very good news . . .

A study at the University of Milan found that taking breaks during your workout makes you burn more calories.

They had people climb stairs and walk on a treadmill.  They either went for four minutes at a time, or did ultra-short bursts of 10 seconds at a time.

It turned out the 10-second bursts burned more calories . . . up to 60% more.  (!!!)  The catch is both workout sessions covered the same distance.

In other words, you'll burn more calories if you walk a mile and take a bunch of breaks during it.  But because of all the breaks, it'll take a lot longer to cover that mile.  So is it really worth wasting that much time?

The more practical thing to do is just let yourself take regular breaks when you're working out, and don't feel bad about it.

They found the reason it works is our body burns more calories when it's gearing up for exercise.  Once you get going, it settles in.

They compared it to how a car uses more gas to get up to speed.  Once you're already going 60, it's more fuel efficient.  (Phys.org / The Royal Society)