HIIT training

[someday]

I was just glancing at some tables for HIIT cardio and it was reccomending like a 6 minute 30 seconds walk 30 second run cycles. To those of you that do it is this really effective. I just started doing like 2 minute walk and 3 minute run on the treadmill for 45 minutes and wondered how the two would compare.

[scottninpo]

don't even bother doing that on the treadmill, in order for HIIT to work, you need to be outside, preferably on a track, in the first month or so, you'll be thinking your wasting your time, but around week 6 or 7, you'll see some awesome results starting to happen

[bigsd67]

a good article on different versions of HIIT is the "running man" article by Christian Thibbideau on www.*****.com it gives a few different versions of HIIT and has a good explanation of why it works. also i agree that a treadmill sucks for it because it takes too long for it to speed up and slow down. though an elipse machine is pretty good.

[Spoon]

I personally do 15 sec full sprint followed by 45 sec walk i do this around ten to 15 reps then add 5 mre reps for every week completed til i get to 30 reps. Kinda hard to get used to in the beginning but i have gotten better results here than any treadmill or bike.

Spoon

[Kärnfysikern]

I kinda does something like that but with a jump rope. I jump medium pace about 200 jumps then as high pace as I can handle for 70reps or until I fail. Then I go down in pace after a 20 second rest period and repeat like that until I have been doing it for about 25-30 minutes.

[Spoon]

I kinda does something like that but with a jump rope. I jump medium pace about 200 jumps then as high pace as I can handle for 70reps or until I fail. Then I go down in pace after a 20 second rest period and repeat like that until I have been doing it for about 25-30 minutes.

25-30 minutes of mid-hi intensity jump rope? :eek: you must be in great shape to sustain that.

Spoon

[Kärnfysikern]

Its hell and I often take longer rest periods lol but I always aim for half an ahour. But is more often 22-23 minutes. I love jumprope but it exhaust me so bad that I almost puke and after a period of mega high intensity I more or less fall down to the floor gasping for breath lol.

[Kärnfysikern]

Not to mention I suck pretty bad at jump rope and often screw upp and have to restart ect so I get some unavoidable rest that way to.

[Spoon]

Its hell and I often take longer rest periods lol but I always aim for half an ahour. But is more often 22-23 minutes. I love jumprope but it exhaust me so bad that I almost puke and after a period of mega high intensity I more or less fall down to the floor gasping for breath lol.

il be sure to give it a try one of these days. i was never good at jump ropes. i always seem to get tripped up!

Spoon

[Kärnfysikern]

il be sure to give it a try one of these days. i was never good at jump ropes. i always seem to get tripped up!

Spoon

after a week or 2 you will have gotten a pretty good hang of it. Its important to have a good rope. A medium stiff plastic rope I have found to be the best.

Running also kills my knees so I prefer jump rope cause of that :) But jump rope kills my achiles tendon lol so no matter what Im screwed. :frown:

[Spoon]

after a week or 2 you will have gotten a pretty good hang of it. Its important to have a good rope. A medium stiff plastic rope I have found to be the best.

Running also kills my knees so I prefer jump rope cause of that :) But jump rope kills my achiles tendon lol so no matter what Im screwed. :frown:

:( hell yeah Were all screwed lol. to each his own! Take it easy bro! :dg:

Spoon