20 Minute Treadmill Workout That'll Torch Fat

The treadmill - quite frankly - does not get the credit it deserves. Often reserved for a run or long walk when the weather is gloomy, we've decided to give the machine a new lease of life. With help from our expert Joe Bishop, you'll have a new appreciation for this versatile piece of equipment and feeling that booty burn in no time!

- Joe Bishop

TOO OFTEN PEOPLE walk into a gym and hop on the treadmill with no specific goals or thoughts in doing so; they simply jump on and start to jog. Their mind is elsewhere and the speed, incline or intensity setting of the treadmill is not considered and will often be set far too low to cause any metabolic change.

The treadmill is one of the most under-utilised machines in a gym for burning calories, as people tend to either spend three minutes on them warming up or are distracted by some midday movie on the nearby television, while they slowly keep the pace.

Steady state training such as a 20-30-minute jog on the treadmill is a decent way to burn fat, but it is not the most effective and efficient way of using the treadmill to torch large amounts of fat both during and after your workout.

In this article, I’m going to show you four different workouts using the treadmill that will torch fat while you train and continue to burn fat long after you have stepped off.

The following workouts are based on interval training, whereby the exercise series is broken down into a work period of low or high intensities interspersed with rest/relief periods. Not all interval training has to be of high intensity (such as HIIT) to burn large amounts of calories; it simply means to work at an overall higher intensity than that of the rest/relief periods to cause metabolic adaptations.

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