Finish Strong
Muscle and Fitness Hers South Africa |July - August 2017

Boost your afterburn with just a few minutes of high-intensity training at the end of your workout

Alyssa Shaffer
Finish Strong

WANT TO END YOUR TRAINING feeling strong and boost your metabolic after burn for 24 hours or more? Try employing some finishers at the end of your next routine. “Finishers help you get more out of your regular workout by creating an intense metabolic spike”, explains Megan Dahlman, CSCS, a trainer and performance coach based in Newberg, USA. That translates not only to better conditioning but also to more fat loss.

Finishers by definition aren’t very long - ideally anywhere from 3 to 10 minutes. More than that, says Dahlman, and your body simply can’t maintain the same high-intensity rate, so the workout will become more aerobic in nature, which misses the point of doing a finisher.

These workouts are meant to be hard - like you’ve got nothing left by the time you’re done, says Dahlman. “They should pull every last bit of glycogen out of the muscles so you feel tapped out at the end.”

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