Other tips

In addition to Interval Training, Livestrong recommends two other concepts to achieve great results:

1.  Muscle confusion
2.  Full body exercise

Muscle confusion means that you alter your workout regularly and force your body to do different things so the different muscle groups will alternate in use and recovery.  If you are a runner and you choose to long distance run every day, your body will adapt to that muscle patterning and it will become easier and easier.... change your workout regularly to overcome training plateaus and to prevent overuse injuries.

Instead of isolating a specific muscle group, full-body exercise pairs two major muscle groups together to work in tandem to achieve an overall body workout.  Instead of just doing an isolated overhead press, do a squat first and then complete an overhead press immediately; likewise, pair a lunge and a bicep curl.  This will turn weight training into cardio and burn fat while building muscle.    

Change it up today and check out the results!