The 1 Change That Could Break Through Your Fitness Plateau

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Are you exercising but not losing weight or getting the toned muscles you desire? Does it seem like you can’t get the body you want despite how long you workout? You may have reached a fitness plateau. Your body has become accustomed to an exercise, making the exercise ineffective.

A solution to breaking through a fitness plateau is interval training. It consist of changing the pace of an exercise. It can be applied to almost any cardio exercise including running, biking, and jumping rope. Some of the benefits of interval training include:

• Burns calories
• Torches fat
• Builds cardio
• Develops conditioning
• Requires less time
• Obliterates fitness and weight plateaus

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Here’s how a 15-minute interval training exercise works:

• Minute 0-1: Slow pace
• Minute 1-3: Slightly faster pace
• Minute 3-4: Slow pace
• Minute 4-6: Faster Pace
• Continue to alternate slow and faster paces for the remainder of the exercise.

Use interval training to break through fitness plateaus and take your body to new heights.

Click the video above  for an  example of 5-minute interval training run.

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Sloan Luckie, a Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Public Accountant, is the author of the optimal health workbook, Body Under Construction. Body Under Construction shows how to use nutrition, exercise and sleep to attain and maintain optimal health.

Sloan’s unique philosophy on building and maintaining optimal health has garnered significant media attention. He has appeared on NBC’s “The Talk” with Marion Brooks, NY1 News with Cheryl Wills, WVON Radio with Kendall Moore, WYCA Radio with TL Richardson and graced the pages of Syd Jerome magazine. He’s conducted wellness demonstrations for women’s heart disease, men’s prostate and childhood obesity awareness seminars. Sloan has also conducted nutrition and fitness demonstrations for corporations and not-for-profit organizations throughout the United States.

 Sloan Luckie, who is also the founder of Body Under Construction, LLC.