{"id":49508,"date":"2025-06-15T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49508"},"modified":"2025-06-15T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T18:50:23","slug":"exercise-and-fitness-targeting-visceral-fat-with-hiit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/exercise-and-fitness-targeting-visceral-fat-with-hiit\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise and fitness: targeting visceral fat with hiit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about exercise and weight loss: the tutor mentions an idea about hiit.<\/h2>\n<p>\nVisceral fat, it seems, is known to be bad. On a low-fat vegan diet, I&#8217;ve lost about 11 pounds, but the visceral fat seems stubborn. How might one target visceral fat for reduction?<\/p>\n<p>\nIt turns out, perhaps, that high intensity interval training (hiit) may effectively target visceral fat, especially if one keeps the heart rate below 90% of safe maximum. Simply put, hiit means alternating 30 seconds to a minute at relatively high exertion with about the same duration at a relaxed pace. A warm-up would be done before, then a cool-down after.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthdirect.gov.au\/how-to-reduce-visceral-body-fat-hidden-fat#:~:text=Visceral%20fat%2C%20also%20known%20as,burn%20and%20not%20moving%20enough.\">healthdirect.gov.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/29127602\/\">pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about exercise and weight loss: the tutor mentions an idea about hiit. Visceral fat, it seems, is known to be bad. On a low-fat vegan diet, I&#8217;ve lost about 11 pounds, but the visceral fat seems stubborn. How might &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/exercise-and-fitness-targeting-visceral-fat-with-hiit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exercise and fitness: targeting visceral fat with hiit?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,1370],"tags":[3684,3685],"class_list":["post-49508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise-and-fitness","category-health","tag-hiit","tag-visceral-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49510,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49508\/revisions\/49510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}