• Food
  • Family
  • Beauty & Health
  • Style
  • Great Women
  • Events/Win
  • Domestic Diva Awards 2022
  • Food
    • Eating Out
    • Cooking Tips
    • Festive Food
    • Asian Recipes
    • Food
    • Celebrity Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Healthy Recipes
    • Quick & Easy Recipes
    • Western Recipes
  • Family
    • Family
    • Save Money
    • Parenting
    • Sex & Marriage
    • Travel
  • Beauty & Health
    • Beauty & Health
    • Skincare
    • Makeup
    • Hair
    • Awards
    • Diet & Nutrition
    • Fitness
    • Wellness
  • Style
  • Great Women
    • Career
    • Great Women of Our Time
    • Real Life
  • Entertainment
  • EVENTS/WIN
  • #SchoolForLife
  • Hair Awards
  • Great Escape
  • Explore Singapore
  • Also available at:
Privacy Menu
SPH Media

Copyright © 2023 SPH Media Limited. Co. Regn. No. 202120748H. All rights reserved.

  • Food
  • Family
  • Beauty & Health
  • Style
  • Great Women
  • Events/Win

Beauty & Health

Burn Fat And Get Your Heart Rate Up With These 7 Interval Training Exercises

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
Fitness

Burn Fat And Get Your Heart Rate Up With These 7 Interval Training Exercises

Burn fat and get fit, faster

November 14, 2022

ONE Championship

If you’re serious about burning fat, losing weight, and improving your physical fitness, interval training is one of the things you should add to your workout routine. High-intensity interval training has become increasingly popular in the past decade due to how effective this approach to training can be.

Interval training allows you to do more in the gym in less time. Interval training combines various exercises to give you a more effective workout. Each exercise is performed right after another with little or no rest until you’re done with all your stations.

READ NEXT

8 Post-Workout Meals To Try After A Hard Gym Sesh

Here’s How Muay Thai Helped Transform This Supermodel’s Body Confidence

Review: This $9 Female-Friendly Gym In Beauty World Is Perfect For Privacy

Some of the benefits of interval training include:

  • Interval training burns more calories than conventional training. You can burn more than 1000 calories for every hour you spend doing it.
  • It improves your cardiovascular endurance, allowing you to workout for longer periods.
  • It makes your time at the gym more efficient.
  • It leads to more significant fat loss than conventional exercises.
  • It improves your overall muscle endurance and speed.

Thanks to interval training, excuses like not having enough time to exercise are no longer valid. Start with pre-designed circuits at first, and start building your own circuits as your fitness knowledge grows. The key to building a good interval circuit is adding exercises that work different body parts, so you get some passive rest as you move through your circuits. Here are some simple interval circuits you can add to your workout program.

https://www.womensweekly.com.sg/gallery/beauty-and-health/fitness/burn-fat-7-interval-training-exercises/
Burn Fat And Get Your Heart Rate Up With These 7 Interval Training Exercises
The Heart Pumper
custom

This circuit will take you anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes to complete depending on your fitness level, and you don’t get any breaks after your exercises or circuits. It’s called the heart pumper for a reason. The goal is to push your cardiovascular system. Aim to perform five to ten rounds of this circuit when you work out.

Here’s what it looks like

  • Ten pushups;
  • Ten crunches;
  • Ten squats;
  • Ten tuck jumps, and;
  • Ten superman reps.

The Pusher
custom

This circuit only consists of three exercises, but it hits most of the major muscle groups in the body, like the core, hamstrings, quads, glutes, upper back, shoulders, biceps, and triceps. It combines classic push and pull exercises to give you a full body workout.

You get to rest as much as you need between reps performing this exercise as long as you keep the bar on your back. You also get up to 90 seconds of rest after completing each round. You can complete the circuit in about 15 to 20 minutes. The exercises you’ll be performing are:

  • Ten barbell back squats;
  • Ten bodyweight pullups, and;
  • Ten barbell push presses.

Tough Runs
custom

Tough runs are great for people who prefer running to conventional exercises or anyone looking to improve their cardio. Running is one of the most underrated exercises since it actually gives you a full body workout and pushes your cardiovascular system to its limit.

This exercise should take you anywhere between 12 to 18 minutes. And you should rest for as long as you run throughout the circuit.

To perform a tough run, run at about 90 percent of your maximum pace for 30 seconds, then rest for 30 seconds. Repeat the process, aiming to get about 12 rounds or as many as possible. Gradually increase the number of rounds you perform as your body gets used to performing these sprints. Run on an incline to make things more challenging.

Hardcore Box Jumps
custom

Add this workout to the end of your weight training sessions or combine it with bodyweight exercises. Aim for a 2:1 work-to-rest ratio when performing this exercise, meaning you get to rest for about half the time you work.

To perform this exercise, jump on an exercise box as many times as possible in 30 seconds. Focus on performing the exercise as fast as possible, then rest for 15 seconds. Repeat the process until you’ve completed at least eight rounds. If you find that too challenging, use a shorter exercise box.

Kettlebell Squat Swings
custom

Here’s an effective way to make conventional squats more challenging. You’ll need a kettlebell to perform this exercise. Don’t let the name fool you; there’s not much to this interval. You simply perform squats with the kettlebell and follow up with kettlebell swings.

Perform as many reps as you can get in 30 seconds and rest for the same amount of time.

The Karate Kid
custom

This circuit gives you a full-body workout that targets many of the muscles that make a massive difference in martial arts, like the hip flexors, back, chest, shoulders, and legs. You don’t get any rest when going through the circuit, but you rest for up to 90 seconds after completing each round. Here’s what this circuit looks like:

  • Ten pushups reps;
  • Ten bodyweight squats;
  • Ten hip thrusts;
  • Ten burpees;
  • Alligator crawls for 30 seconds;
  • Bear crawls for 30 seconds, and;
  • Shrimping for 30 seconds.

Add more reps to each exercise as your body gets used to the circuit. Going through these exercises fast strengthens your muscles and improves their endurance so you can perform physically demanding movements for longer periods without getting tired.

The Double Kettlebell Crusher
custom

One kettlebell is more than enough to make your exercises more challenging, but two kettlebells take things to another level. This exercise is excellent for muscle endurance and fat burn. It also improves your grip strength, which is helpful to people who participate in sports where gripping and pulling are the norm, like martial arts like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, or wrestling.

The key to this exercise is to keep both kettlebells in your hands once you pick them up until you’re done with the entire round. It should take you less than 20 minutes to complete the workout. Here’s what the exercise looks like:

  • Walk 50 feet while carrying the kettlebells overhead;
  • Five reps of kettlebell cleans and presses;
  • Cover 50 feet rack walking;
  • Five reps of kettlebell squats;
  • Five reps of bent-over rows, and;
  • 50 feet farmer’s walk.

Aim to perform about three rounds of this circuit, resting for up to three minutes between rounds. Keep the kettlebells outside your hands and in front of your shoulders while walking with them.

Text: Evolve MMA

Evolve MMA is Asia’s top martial arts academy to house the most number of world champions across all major martial arts disciplines.

Read Next

10 Easy, Effective Ways To Lose Belly Fat In 10 Days

10 Foods With The Healthiest Fats You Should Add To Your Diet

10 Habits Secretly Making You Fat

  • TAGS:
  • burning fat
  • Fitness
  • Interval Training Exercises
SHARE THIS ON

What’s Hot

Fitness

15 Low Impact Workouts To Do On Your Res...

Fitness

Postpartum Fitness Tips And Exercises Fo...

Fitness

3 Lesser-Known Hiking Trails To Explore ...

Fitness

Burn Fat And Get Your Heart Rate Up With...

Fitness

13 Practical Gifts For Your Fitness-Obse...

Fitness

Here's How Kegel Exercises Can Be Benefi...

Fitness

How These 3 HDB Flats Became The Perfect...

Fitness

These Training Sessions Are Perfect For ...

Fitness

9 Lunchtime Workouts You Can Actually Do...

Fitness

How Organised Events Can Be A Starting P...

Fitness

13 Self-Defence Tips Every Woman Should ...

Editor’s Picks
  • Diet & Nutrition Going From 92 To 61kg: How She Reached Her Weight Goal With Help Of A Friend ...
  • Fitness 15 Low Impact Workouts To Do On Your Rest Days
  • Gadgets & Toys Best Valentine’s Day Gifts Under $50 For Him And Her
  • Fitness Postpartum Fitness Tips And Exercises For New Mums
  • Fitness 3 Lesser-Known Hiking Trails To Explore In Singapore
  • Beauty & Health Early 11.11 Sale: Fitness Deals You'll Want To Buy
Don't Miss Out Ever Again!
Tips & tricks to stay sane + win invites to our events!

By signing up, you indicate that you have read and agreed with our Privacy Statement
Footer Menu
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Conditions of Access
  • PDPA
  • Privacy Policy
?>">
SPH Magazine

Copyright © 2023 SPH Media Limited. Co. Regn. No. 202120748H. All rights reserved.