Features:
- Easy! One press activates interval cycle.
- 4 second alarm with auto-shut off and auto-reset.
- Optimal preprogrammed and preset time.
- Red flashing alert with clearly audible alarm.
- Comfortable elastic cotton sweatband.
- Uni-sex and one size fits all.
Benefits: · User does not need to stare at a clock, watch, stopwatch, or guess the guessing the rest period between sets. · There is also no fussing with setting the timer, or calculating the rest-period for each exercise. Our timer is pre-programmed for the optimal rest-period between sets. · Prevents monotony of daily workout routines. · Saves time and makes your workout more efficient. · Makes weight-lifting more aerobic. · Great for physical-therapy or weight-training.
· Great as rest-timer or duration timer.
There are many practical uses for this timer, try and google “High Intensity Interval Training (H.I.I.T.)” or “30 second interval) and you will find out why so many people are using the 30 second interval for so many sport activities. Say ’NO’ to high-priced timers and ‘YES’ to the Rest-Timer.
Examples of how to use it the Rest-Timer: Weight-training: Choose at least 10 lifiting exercises and plan for 4 sets of 15 per exercise. Do the first set then after press the large timer button. You will hear two ‘beep’ sounds alerting you the interval has begun. Then just relax…watch the TV, talk to friends, listen to the music or read. After the countdown has ended, you will hear a 4 second ‘beep’ alerting you to continue with your next set. Then repeat the process after each set and you will be surprised how fast you fly through your workout. What normally takes you one hour, will take you half the time. Your body will become acclamated to the interval and you find your self unconsciously preparing to do your next set a second before the alarm even activates. Your body clock prepares for activity even before the stimulus. Before you know it, your body is on auto-pilot effortlessly taking you through your work-out.
Physical therapy: With many physical therapy exercises they require patient to hold a weight or a particular position for a period of time. Using the Rest-Timer, the patient can press the timer before initiating the exercise and then hold position or weight for the duration of the preset time. Some other common uses include sprinting, fencing, cardiovascular training, rowing, and even used by teachers for classroom activities, Restaurant employees use it to time their customer food preparation. The potential uses depend on the users imagination!! Most people that go to the gym or do physical therapy want get their workout done and get on with their day. The Rest-Timer helps you achieve this. Make sure you have a plan for your workout and this timer will take you from the beginning to the end quickly and efficiently, aerobically pushing you to the limit. This timer has been designed by a sports trainer as a comfortable, easy-to-use, one-function, pre-set timer that works great for on-the-go athletes performing almost any activity. Interval training is a favorite of sports-trainers because of its effectiveness in cardiovascular buildup and also its ability to make more well-rounded atheletes.
It is believed by many in the fitness industry that this method of training is more effective at inducing fat loss than simply training at a moderate intensity level for the same duration. This has been confirmed in at least two studies. Please check out some of our links and you too will get fired up about Rest-Timer!
High Repetitions Burn More Fat Myth
Performing lighter weight with more repetitions (15-20 reps, 20-30 reps, or 20-50 reps) does not burn more fat or tone (simultaneous decrease of fat and increase muscle) better than a heaver weight with moderate repetitions (8-12 reps). Weight training utilizes carbohydrates after the initial ATP and CP stores have been exhausted after the first few seconds of intense muscular contraction. Typically a set’s duration is 20 to 30 seconds. For the average fit person, it requires 20 to 30 minutes of continuous aerobic activity with large muscle groups (e.g. Gluteus Maximus and Quadriceps) to burn even 50% fat; fat requires oxygen to burn. Performing a few extra repetitions on a weight training exercise is not significant enough to burn extra fat and may in effect burn less fat. If intensity is compromised, less fat may be burned when light weight is used with high repetitions. The burning sensation associated with high repetition training seems to be the primary deterrent for achieving higher intensities.
Higher volume weight training (i.e. 3 sets versus 1 set of each exercise) with short rest periods of approximately 1 minutes can stimulate a greater acute growth hormone release (Kraemer 1991, 1993; Mulligan 1996). Growth hormone is lipolytic in adults. It is hypothesized that maximal effort is necessary for optimizing exercise induced secretion of growth hormone. Growth hormone release is related to the magnitude of exertion (Pyka 1992) and is attenuated with greater lactic acidosis (Gordon 1994).
Intense weight training utilizing multiple large muscles with longer rest between sets may also accentuate body lipid deficit by increasing post training epinephrine. Intramuscular triacylgycerol is thought to be an important energy substrate following repeated 30 second maximal exercise with 4 minute recovery intervals (McCartney 1996, Tremblay 1994). Rest periods lasting approximately 4 minutes between maximal exercise exercise of very short duration is required for almost complete creatine phosphate recovery required for repeated maximal bouts (McCartney 1986). Insufficiant recovery may compromise the intensity of the exercise and in turn, possibly decrease intramuscualr triacylgycerol utilization following anaerobic exercise with significantly shorter rest periods.
For individuals attempting to achieve fat loss for aesthetics, the intensity of weight training can be a double edge sword. When beginning an exercise program, muscle mass increases may out pace fat losses, resulting in a small initial weight gain. Significant fat loss requires a certain intensity, duration, and frequency that novice exercisers may not be able to achieve until they develop greater tolerance to exercise. If an exercise and nutrition program is not adequate for significant fat loss, a lighter weight with higher repetitions may be recommended to minimize any bulking effects, although less fat may be utilized hours later. If an aerobic exercise and nutrition program is sufficient enough to lose fat, a moderate repetition range with a progressively heavier weight will accelerate fat loss with a toning effect. If a muscle group ever outpaces fat loss, the slight bulking effect is only temporary. For a toning effect, fat can be lost later when aerobic exercise can be significantly increased or the weight training exercise(s) for that particular muscle can be ceased altogether. The muscle will atrophy to a pre-exercise girth within months. Higher repetitions training may be later implemented and assessed.
It still may be recommended to perform high repetitions (e.g. 20-30) for abdominal and oblique training. It has been theorized muscular endurance may be more beneficial for lower back health than for muscular strength. Furthermore, moderate repetitions with a greater resistance can increase muscular girth under the subcutaneous fat, particularly in men, who have greater potential for muscular hypertrophy. Increasing the thickness around the waist with existing abdominal fat may further increase bulk, particularly in men who typically have greater intra-abdominal and subcutaneous fat in this area. The abdominal muscularture is composed of relatively small muscle mass as compared to the glutes, quadriceps, hamstrings, chest, and upper back. Performing high reps with a lighter resistance should not compromise metabolism or muscle increases, as would performing high reps with light resistance on other, larger muscle groups. See Spot Reduction Myth above.
It is plausible that the high repetition myth was originated and later propagated by bodybuilders that used calorie restrictive diets to shed fat before a contest. Because of their weakened state from dieting, they were unable to use their usual heavier weights. When asked about their use of lighter weights, they explained they were “cutting up” for a contest. This is merely a theory, but it is easy to see how it may have been misunderstood that the lighter weight was used to reduce fat instead of actually being a result of their dietary regime.
Typically with weight training alone, the fat loss is equal to the muscle gain, give or take a few pounds. Certain dietary modification can have much greater impact on fat loss than with weight training alone. The ideal program for fat loss would include the combination of proper diet, weight training, and cardio exercise. Also see study summaries: Weight Training and Diet and Endurance and Weight Training.
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