All right. Hello, everybody. It's Dr. Ray Heines. And this is Black Almerg. I hope everybody is doing well. Welcome back to Cut the Fat Podcast.

Yeah. In today's episode, what are we talking about? We are going to be talking about different types of interval training. Now there are probably a thousand and one different types of interval interval training out there.

But I'd like to talk about some of my favorite ones. And I know you've got some favorite concepts and styles that you like to use as well. There are a couple of books out there like the metabolic effect diet and the metabolic effect exercises. That's one of my absolute favorites.

I kind of want to get down to the nitty gritty of these different types of interval training so we can give people some new ideas for working out.

Absolutely. You know, before we do that, I'd like to tell you about a law. It's called Jesse's Law. Okay. I'm getting this from the book, the Gabriel method. It's written by John Gabriel. It's a pretty popular book that's out there. You probably have seen ads for it online. There are tons of ads all over the place for it. But he has a chapter called Jesse's Law.

Are you ready for it? Yeah. Okay. So it's a story. I'm going to tell you the story. And it kind of really segues into how interval training is so important. All right. It goes like this. I'm just going to read this one little section out of the book.

So Jesse's understanding of metabolism and calorie control were non-existent. Jesse had never even been to school. So he couldn't read or write. And while he was quite smart for a house cat, he wasn't exactly a rocket scientist either.

Just entering. Just entering his young adulthood. Jesse was what you could describe as pleasantly plump. He didn't work all that hard and spent most of his spare time loafing around the house just like other cats.

Buddy, our next door neighbor, 120 pound mastiff hated cats. Every afternoon Jesse took a pleasant stroll over to our neighbor's yard and would lay on the grass to tease poor buddy who was locked indoors.

Jesse would mosey on over lie down on the grass yon and stretch and buddy would go crazy barking and screaming from inside the house. One day the neighbors got sick of it and let buddy out.

Buddy shot out of his yard like a freight train firing on all pistons. I never saw anything so big move so fast. He and Jesse ran off into the woods. And I didn't see Jesse for the rest of the day.

The next day Jesse came back limping. Buddy had gotten ahold of Jesse's leg and bit it. I nursed Jesse back to health and he was fine. But then something amazing happened over the next few weeks.

He got very thin and wiry. People started commenting on his weight drop and they suggested that a vet check him out for worms. But I knew exactly why Jesse had become so thin.

Jesse's body wanted to be thinner to keep him alive. A new stress had come into his life and Jesse was adapting to the stress.

And he says, let's look at it from Jesse's perspective. The stress was a big mean dog. Interpretation of the stress. If big mean dog gets me, I will die. Reaction, run for my life.

Adaptation. Get thinner and faster. So next time this literal. Well, I won't say that tries to catch me. I'll outrun him and I will be safe. OK, so.

Well, drawn out way to describe the hormonal changes that happen when we put our body under intense stress as is the case with interval training. Does that make sense? Yeah.

You know, people's bodies are so great at adapting and I know we're talking about Jesse the cat, but people's bodies are so awesome and quick at adapting to what you're putting it through that if you change up your exercise program, you're likely to see changes in your physique.

Oh, yeah, it happens all the time. It's one of the kind of tenants of training, right? Right. And you know, when we go back and talk about interval training, it's not even just the intervals. It's the intensity of the intervals.

So even if you're already doing interval style training, you can turn it up a notch and still see changes. Hopefully we can get some new ideas brewing in people's heads today.

Right. And this brings us to what we call the minimum required dose of exercise. I think we've talked about it briefly in the past.

As it pertains to interval training, you got to remember that what we're trying to achieve here is not a calorie burn for a workout.

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