You may already know that you have to burn the fat off of your abs if you want to have a six pack.  Of course, this usually means spending hours running on the treadmill and sweating.  Most people don’t know that you can actually workout for half the time and burn almost twice as many calories.  In fact, you’ll burn calories for hours after you stop working out.  This amazing fat burning workout is called interval training.

 Interval training is a specific type of cardiovascular exercise.  With traditional cardio exercise, you usually workout at a moderate steady pace for an extended period of time.  With interval training, your workouts are usually much shorter, and you only do the workout a few times a week.  The main difference between interval training and traditional cardio is that you vary the intensity or pace several times throughout the workout.  There are a number of benefits of this type of exercise. 

First of all, since you work out for a shorter amount of time, interval training is much easier to fit into a busy schedule.  It’s hard to find the time to workout for an hour or more, but it’s not that difficult to find 20 or 30 minutes during the day.  Another benefit, as mentioned earlier, is that you’ll burn a lot more calories with interval training.  When you vary the intensity of your workouts, you keep your body burning the most calories possible.  Interval training also speeds up your metabolism even after you’ve stopped working out, so you’ll burn tons of calories throughout the day.  

All of this calorie burning adds up to amazing abs.  If you want to see these benefits for yourself, it’s very easy to get started.  You can use almost any cardio exercise for interval training.  What you’ll want to do is pick an exercise that you can control the intensity like jogging.  There are a couple of different ways you can do interval training.  

You can do structured or unstructured intervals.  An example of structured intervals during jogging would be to jog at a moderate pace for 3 minutes then sprint for 1 minute.  You would repeat this for the entire workout.  With unstructured intervals, you would sprint for as long as you can, then rest for as long as you need before starting the next interval.  You can choose the best type for you.   

While interval training alone won’t get you perfect abs, it will help you burn the fat around your waistline.  This is a huge step towards six pack abs.  With less fat around your stomach, you’ll have an easier time sculpting your abs without them being hidden under a layer of fat.