Even More Research to Support Interval Strength Training

This was reported in the September 2008 issue of the “Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research:”

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Santa Cruz studied two different types of workouts.

The first one was one hour of traditional strength training followed by 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise.

The second one was a combined strength and cardio workout, which included what was called “cardioacceleration,” or essentially a high intensity cardio bust in between the strength training exercises.

The results were striking as the second group (which included the cardioacceleration) saw an almost 10-fold reduction in body fat compared to the first group and also saw an 82.2% increase in muscle gain. These results are staggering!