Originally Posted by bronco67

She needs to step up the cardio away from the basic long steady variety, and move into some HIIT. Look into the Tabata protocol -- which is basically 4 minute high intensity sessions of 20 seconds on/10 seconds off.

3 weeks after I started integrating it a couple times a week into my workouts, I noticed a speedup in fat loss.

If you want to really get serious with this, just do Tabata sprints about twice per week.

4 minutes doesn't seem like a lot, but you have to de-program the classic cardio mindset of "longer is better". HIIT is no bullshit.