Hiit after leg day

[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