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Sunday, September 26, 2010

20 second fitness

It's called 20 second fitness
The web address is... http://20second.com/

The Science

You’re probably thinking, “How does it work? How can 8-12 minutes a day really get me the body I want and help to get in the best shape of my life? Can you prove it?”
To make it simple, let’s think for a minute about your car. If you want to get the worst gas mileage possible what do you do? You floor it, put the pedal to the metal, step on it, rev the engine high, and go! Here is a little example for you: Spencer’s car gets 33 mpg at 60 mph but gets only 25 mpg at 80 mph. If he were to drive straight from LA to Miami at 60 mph it would take him a little over 39 hours and would use just over 71 gallons. But if he drove it at 80 MPH it would take only 29.5 hours and would use a whopping 94 gallons of fuel! The faster we drive, the more fuel we use, even though we use the car for less time. This is similar to the way 20 Second Fitness works with your body — if you think of calories and fat as fuel. We want to make our bodies get the worst gas mileage possible. We want to burn through as many calories as we can, as quickly as we can. With 20 Second Fitness, you rev your engine (going intense through the workout), you cover the same distance a lot more quickly (compressing an hour’s worth of exercise into 8-12 minutes) and due to the acceleration, you get some really bad mileage (we burn a lot more calories faster due to the metabolic overload of going intense). There you have it — if you cover the same distance at a higher rate of speed but in a shorter amount of time, you get much faster progress!


TRACY
BEFORE

AFTER 5 months and 61pounds lighter. 

I love doing 20 Second Fitness! It amazes me that you can get the same results that you would in riding your bike or running for hours at a time but for no more than 8 to 12 minutes a day. I have been doing the workout faithfully for about 30-40 days and have lost 17 pounds and have dropped almost two pant sizes. As a Mom and someone that works full time plus travels fourteen days out of each month, Spencer has made it very easy to stay motivated and not fall from my exercise routine when I’m on the road… Anyone and everyone have 12 minutes to fit this workout in their day – that is the beauty of it AND you get great results!
-Tracy


LINDSAY



As an All-American 1,500 meter runner in college, I appreciate the effectiveness of interval workouts. But 10 years later, as a mom of three, I find myself working out less and less because I don’t feel like I have the time to commit to it. Having 20 Second Fitness has been perfect. It is so quick I can always fit it in somewhere in my day, and it really makes a difference. I can feel the workout in my legs and body throughout the day. I’m left feeling so glad I did the workout instead of letting another day slip by without exercise, and it only took 12 minutes!
-Lindsay




Check it out... I'll keep y'all posted on how I'm doing.  I'll post my before pics and after pics at the same time in 30 days... I'll keep going to the gym to get my cardio workouts in and this workout will be my muscle toning workouts

1 comment:

  1. Hey Britni,

    I hope you've made 20 Second Fitness a daily habit! If you do and give it everything you've got for each 20 seconds you will see results! If you need any help or encouragement email me and I will be glad to help. I've been told I make a great cheerleader!

    Spence
    spencer@20second.com

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