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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Cardio Question..

techiegirl1979
techiegirl1979
Posts: 27
Joined: 2005/02/21
Canada
2005/03/16, 12:49 PM
CAn someone give me an example of HITT, meaning an actual routine they might do, I am somewhat confused on HITT.
So say I work out 5 days a week, I am thinking I would do HITT twice a week and fill the rest of my cardio workouts with endurance cardio. DOes this sound right?
I am looking to be tone and cut. I dont want huge mass.
I am on a FT program right now and its going well, but i am getting bored with my cardio.
Sometimes i do three 10 minute high intensity workouts right after each other, I dont think this is HITT though!
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princesslodgey
princesslodgey
Posts: 1,748
Joined: 2004/02/21
United Kingdom
2005/03/16, 05:09 PM
try 5 mins warm up
*1 minute flat out 85-95% Max heart rate
1 minute easy pace recovery
repeat from * 7 more times
5 minutes warm down

Or you can do 30 secs high intensity with 1+1/2min recovery x 8
or 2 mins high intensity, 2 mins recovery x 4

I have done all these variations, depending on how I am feeling and I don't think one is superior to the other.
JustinE22
JustinE22
Posts: 1,312
Joined: 2003/09/18
United States
2005/03/16, 05:12 PM
Also if you type HIIT in the search below you will find tons and tons of HIIT sample programs and information.gl