Why I hate Cardio!

Cardio sucks!

At least long, slow boring cardio. You know what I am talking about.
Get on the treadmill or bike or other piece of equipment, and go at it in a not too particularly hard manner for 30 minutes to an hour.

You see people doing this all the time in the gym...often they are reading magazines or chatting it up with a partner!

You are not getting an effective workout when you are doing this! If you can read a magazine when you are working out, you are not working out hard enough to do anything!

Whats a better way? Interval cardio.

Interval cardio burns more fat, is quicker and helps to maintain muscle; it may even help to build muscle. Just check out a sprinter to understand what I am talking about.

I am too busy to sit on a bike for up to an hour, reading a magazine!, to get a good cardio workout done.
An interval session will have me working my a@* off for about 20 minutes and then I am done. The bonus is, I will continue to burn fat after the workout due to EPOC (exercise post oxygen consumption). You don't get this from traditional long slow cardio.

You don't have to use a treadmill or cardio equipment either. You can do sprints outside, bodyweight training circuits or a myriad of other things. Mix it up, get out of the gym! It is almost summer! Are your abs showing!?