Human growth hormone (hGH), while essential for growth, it is also important for burning fat and building calorie-burning lean tissue in adults. Unfortunately hGH declines with age. To increase the hormone you can take synthetic hGH along with its side-effects, or hGH can be increased naturally in response to a certain type of exercise (exercise-induced growth hormone response - EIGR). From the study The exercise-induced growth hormone response in athletes:
“An exercise intensity above lactate threshold and for a minimum of 10 minutes appears to elicit the greatest stimulus to the secretion of hGH.”
This is how you get less of hGh, another quote:
“Recent evidence suggests that endurance training [i.e., running, cycling] results in decreased resting hGH and a blunted EIGR.”
And finally:
“A growing body of evidence suggests that higher intensity exercise is effective in eliciting beneficial health, well-being and training outcomes. In a great many cases, the impact of some of the deleterious effects of ageing could be reduced if exercise focused on promoting the EIGR.”
Austin Strength Training and at New Orleans Strength Training we specialize in the type of high Intensity training that increases hGH levels. In addition to increasing hGH, a properly designed high intensity training workout will increase energy, bone density, mental acuity, testosterone, and strength. This is a workout anyone of any age or fitness level can do. You build up to it slowly, you improve each week, and over time you will “impact of some of the deleterious effects of ageing” - kind of like a fountain of youth.