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increasingly sedentary life styles. Children and most animals in the wild do not run marathons
or lift weights, they move at high speeds for very short periods of time and then rest. This is
natural and what optimizes the production of growth hormone. The higher your levels of growth
hormone, the healthier and stronger you're going to be. And the longer you can keep your body
producing higher levels of HGH, the longer you will experience robust health and strength.
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example, a runner would alternate 15–20 seconds of hard sprinting with 10 seconds of jogging or
walking. And even if you just imagine and visualize the high intensity self defense workout your
brain will still release HGH.
"Really, if you think about it, when you're looking at exercise-induced growth hormone it's like
you're listening to your body tell you how, as a human being, you should exercise. Because when
you do it this way, your body releases this huge amount of growth hormone that does so many
things synergistically for you for two hours after you work out."
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) or sprint interval training is an exercise strategy that is
intended to improve performance with short training sessions. HIIT is a form of cardiovascular
exercise which is beneficial to burning fat in a short and intense workout. Usual HIIT sessions may
vary from 9–20 minutes. The original protocol set a 2:1 ratio for work to recovery periods. For
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