High Intensity Interval Training
Burn more fat, more calories and improve cardiovascular fitness levels with much less time!
Most of us know that continuous or steady-state cardiovascualr training helps to improve fitness, burn fat and burns calories right? What if I told you there was a more effective way to lose weight, burn fat, burn more calories and improve fitness levels.
High Intensity Interval Training or HIIT is a training method that requires you to use maximum or almost maximum heart rate, this training works your anaerobic energy system and your aerobic system.
Why HIIT?
- More calories can be burnt doing HIIT rather than continous aerobic training. 100 metre sprints repeated can burn approximately 1,225 calories an hour! Compared to continous training which burns approximately 500-700 calories.
- Performing maximum output during exercise requires longer rest periods than continuous training.
- It's ideal if your very busy and you want a quick workout, a 10-20 minute HIIT is enough to benefit you, burn the same amount of calories in a 45- 60 minute continuous workout.
- HIIT training limits muscle loss, whch can be more present in continuous aerobic training.
- HIIT fuels fat as an energy source and increases the fat burning potential.
It's also great to mix interval with high and low intensity intervals. The instrucotr should vary the rest and work ratios with you so you don't adapt so quickly to the training program.
HIIT isn't for everyone
- It's not for beginners who have low fitness levels.
- You should be able to exercise at least 20-30 minutes of 70% of your Max Heart Rate.
- Gradually build up your fitness using HIIT or you will do too much!
- Make sure you do a warm-up and cool down
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