Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up. My name is Ben

Greenfield and I'm the Get Fit Guy. Today you're going to learn about a 12 minute fat loss workout.

And it's based on a recent study in which researchers looked at the impact of two

different exercise regimens in the first one group exercised just three times a week with four

minute workout sessions and the other group also exercised three times per week but they performed

16 minute sessions that were broken into

four-minute bouts. So, if you were doing the math, that means that the first group

exercise for a total of just 12 minutes a week, while the other group exercised 48 minutes a week.

Granted, neither of those were marathon-esque training sessions, but in spite of that, the results

were very surprising. The four-minute bursts of vigorous physical activity three times each

week elevated participants' oxygen intake levels, as well as lowered their blood pressure and their

blood glucose levels, just as much as the 16-minute

sessions. As a matter of fact, the four-minute group decreased their blood pressure even more than the

16-minute group. Now, it's a commonly held misperception that getting the body you desire requires

oodles of hard work and hours upon hours of training. But this new research proves

exactly the opposite, that it only takes four minutes of vigorous activity three times per week

to get relatively fit and healthy. Now, on the flip side, there are certainly downsides of

exercising too much, which I reveal in the episode, can you exercise too

much? I'll link over to that at quick and dirty tips.com in the show notes for this episode.

And these downsides include loss of time, hormone depletion, sore muscles, overtraining,

and physical or mental burnout.

Now, as far as that 12-minute workout goes, I'll bet you want the nitty-gritty details of what these people were actually doing for 12 minutes a week.

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