Hiit after leg day

[lucabratzi]

So I plan on Doin hiit cardio 2-3 days a week. But it will eventually (today) be the day after leg day. I did my normal steady 45min cardio this am cause my legs/glutes are sore as hell.

What's everyone's opinion on Doin hiit while you're legs are still recovering? I don't mean to beat a dead horse about overtraining but it seems if I go hard on hiit its going to hinder my leg recovery.

[baseline_9]

I wouldn't do it..... I treat lower body HIIT like a real leg training session and allow days before and after for recovery

[lucabratzi]

I wouldn't do it..... I treat lower body HIIT like a real leg training session and allow days before and after for recovery

Good to know. Cause I trained legs Monday and I can still barely walk today. So I'm assuming i wont be able to do hiit for tomorow cardio

[riotz0r]

Remember Luca, HIIT is High Intensity Interval Training... Nothing there states you have to run... Do an elliptical at a fast pace for 5 minutes, do push ups or ab work for 5 minutes rest for a few minutes and repeat or something along those lines... You don't necessarily have to run on every hit day... Push ups and sit ups can be part of a HIIT workout as well... Just an option you can look at...

[baseline_9]

Remember Luca, HIIT is High Intensity Interval Training... Nothing there states you have to run... Do an elliptical at a fast pace for 5 minutes, do push ups or ab work for 5 minutes rest for a few minutes and repeat or something along those lines... You don't necessarily have to run on every hit day... Push ups and sit ups can be part of a HIIT workout as well... Just an option you can look at...

What you just described is NOT HIIT.....

[cjay]

What you just described is NOT HIIT.....

Agreed, that is just some variant of interval training.

I just did legs this morning and finished up with HIIT. I do mellow my HIIT to a shorter session on leg days, but still hit it hard. Total time with warm up and cool down was 15 mins, eliptical 2 minute at a normal pace, one minute with resistance almost as high as it will go as fast as I can, back to 2 minute normal pace resistance set a little bellow half. Running HIIT is just too hard on the knees. Finished three rounds of that and had a puddle of sweat under the machine when I was done. Warm up one minute at the lowest setting on each end of the workout

[riotz0r]

Well thats not the best example of HIIT but HIIT is nothing more than alternating between very intense exercise and low intensity exercise around a 3:1-4:1 ratio... I'm just simply pointing out the fact that you dont need to do sprints for HIIT, thats all.

[Turkish Juicer]

HIIT after leg day = bad idea.