Hill Sprints = Great Fat Burning Cardio

Hey guys,

Hope everyone is doing great today. Today is my off day for lifting in the gym, and since im visiting family and friends in the next city over I figure I would take advantage of a an awesome hill located next to Menchville High School and get a good cardio workout in.

These kids have the right idea!

Here is a tremendous article about doing hill sprints for burning fat - http://jasonferruggia.com/hill-sprints-for-fat-loss/

Doing hill sprints does not take that long and you will actually burn more fat and calories doing these short sprinting workouts compared to running on a treadmill for an hour and going insane in the process.

A sprinters body

What I did was very simple and nothing extreme and you should really give it a try as soon as you can.

This mornings "off day" cardio workout :

• 1/4 mile walk

• 1/4 mile medium paced jog

• STRETCH

• 10 hill sprints up the hill. Run as fast as you can and be explosive with every step you take then jog back down the hill and without resting turn around and sprint back up the hill. Do this 10 strait times.

• Rest for  5 minutes.

• 5 hill sprints. Just repeat what you did for the previous 10 hill sprints, only doing 5 this time.

• Then I "power walked" .. just walk at a fast pace for 2 miles and then your done. This workout only took about 15-20 minutes max. 

Here is a great video of my good buddy Gary Deagle at the same hill I was at this morning, demonstrating how to do hill sprints. Gary is the owner of Your Time 24-7 Fitness. They have two locations now, one is in Chesapeake  VA and they just recently opened up a brand new location in Yorktown, VA. Gary has many years of experience as a personal trainer and really knows his stuff about health and fitness.