{"id":115,"date":"2011-08-17T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/new\/?p=115"},"modified":"2012-07-19T08:51:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T15:51:42","slug":"workout-wednesday-epoc-is-the-secret-to-exercising-for-fat-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/workout-wednesday-epoc-is-the-secret-to-exercising-for-fat-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Workout Wednesday: EPOC is The Secret to Exercising For Fat Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/epoc21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-117\" title=\"Epoc2\" src=\"http:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/epoc21.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Your trainer just had you perform 15\u00a0push-ups, 15 air squats and now she tells you to do thirty seconds of mountain climbers, burpees, or jumping pull-ups. The method behind her madness is simple: when you exercise your heart rate is elevated. When you exercise at high\u00a0intensity or extended periods your heart rate remains elevated as it returns to a fully recovered resting state. This may take anywhere from 15 minutes to 48 hours.\u00a0The longer your heart rate remains elevated the more calories you will burn at rest due to a little fat loss miracle called Excess Post Exercise Oxygen\u00a0Consumption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/rpe-rate-of-perceived-exertion-chart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2023\" title=\"rpe-rate-of-perceived-exertion-chart\" src=\"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/rpe-rate-of-perceived-exertion-chart-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The more intense the workout, the greater the EPOC, and the more efficient fat loss. This is how you workout smarter and not harder. Challenge yourself during these strength\/cardio combinations to produce as much EPOC as you can to see faster fat loss results. EPOC is also known as afterburn or metabolic conditioning. EPOC is your fat-burning friend. EPOC is why, deep down, you know you love burpees, mountain climbers, jumping\u00a0pull-ups, jump squats, sprinting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your trainer just had you perform 15\u00a0push-ups, 15 air squats and now she tells you to do thirty seconds of mountain climbers, burpees, or jumping pull-ups. The method behind her madness is simple: when you exercise your heart rate is elevated. When you exercise at high\u00a0intensity or extended periods your heart rate remains elevated as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,45,69,24],"tags":[70,71,72,36,74,75,76,61],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-functional-fitness","category-personal-trainer","category-weight-loss-wednesday","category-workout-wednesday","tag-burpee-exercise","tag-epoc","tag-excess-post-exercise-oxygen-consumption","tag-physical-exercise","tag-physical-therapy","tag-pullups","tag-symbian","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doubleeaglefitness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}