Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 383, Messages: 54581

Various general exercise related discussions. Find out what it takes to reach your fitness goals through daily effective exercise. With so many options we try to find out what works best.

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? about hiit on cross trainer

Tkrueger
Tkrueger
Posts: 11
Joined: 2004/08/22
United States
2004/08/31, 04:13 PM
I use a eliptical cross trainer for my cardio and for the past 3 weeks have done a program where i start at say 6 then in 5 min 7 5 min 8 5 min 9 and so on till i get to 25 then back to 6 for 5. making it a progressive 30 min cardio. with that i have made alot of progress in means of being able to push those higher lvls i currently start at lvl 13 and move all the way to 17 for my 20-25 time and back to 13. after that i can do lvl 13 forever seems like zero resistence, but anyway with all that I've been reading here seems i should give this hiit a try. my quiestion is how does it plug into as far as intesity %.

for example right know what i consider my base is 13 i can do it forever no prob and 17 is my max so how does that fit into 50% 60% 80% 90% intesity that people have outlines is 100% based on my max or my base. i really would like to try this prog and do it twice a week the benifits sound good although i do still like my progressive cardio as well has greaty improved my stamina in past 3 weeks what one was my max is now my base :) so anyone that could help me i would be greatly appreciative.