This evening my PT client, Candace and I smashed out a fantastic HIIT session. Whats HIIT you say?? Well unless you’re training for a marathon, or you really, really love it, you have no business spending hours on the treadmill. You can get just as sweaty in a fraction of the time and with a host of other benefits. So we’ve all heard the buzz around High Intensity Interval Training, better known as HIIT. HIIT is the ultimate way to make you feel like you’ve had the mother of all workouts in mere minutes. The combination of aerobic activity and alternated periods of high and low-intensity training can be applied to virtually any piece of equipment, or no equipment at all. You can HIIT your bike, rower, floor, stairs and yes I have even HIIT in the office. Most HIIT workouts take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes—giving you much more time to do all the other things you actually want to be doing the rest of the day. BENEFITS OF HIIT Increased athletic performance Helps to prevent or overcome plateaus Allows for greater VO2 (oxygen) intake Reduce the risk of overtraining Great for the old ticker Burns body fat fast Sounds all too good to be true right? There has to be a catch. Well there is – to get the results you want you need to work really hard. That means sprinting not jogging, leaping not hopping and sweating like crazy. If you think you can walk away from a HIIT training session with a perfect face and your fabulous hair in place – you’re not doing it right. Want to give HIIT training a go? Give me a call, chase me up in the club or make an appointment with the guys in the office. I promise you wont regret it :) Antoinette
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 10:02:04 +0000
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