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2004/07/23, 05:19 AM
Please ignore this post -in the absence of any mods I am bumping all posts up the line to bury some offensive posts
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2004/07/22, 09:39 AM
Hi brineezy!
The routine you describe sounds like it may be geared toward a beginner, easing you into the HIIT and gradually building up. If your body is not accustomed to high intensity workouts, you need to train it - your heart is a muscle too.
If you have already been doing cardiovascular training, then maybe you want to modify the 8 week routine or find one that starts out at a little more advanced point... there are many many many of them out there, and everyone's body is different so find the one that suits you.
Regarding your bulking question, what you experienced with the daily tape then taking the breaks is typical. The general rule is higher weight/lower reps for gaining mass, and lower weight/higher reps to maintain strength without bulking. Mass occurs when the muscle is recovering, if you were doing the same thing every day, it was probably a higher rep/lower weight situation -- your muscles were never challenged to 'tear down' then rested so they could 'build up'. By taking two day breaks the muscles got a chance to recover and build or bulk up inbetween.
You can weight train every day just do different muscle groups.. rest your legs for two days while you do upper body (chest/back, shoulders/biceps or whatever).
Hope that helps!
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The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
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2004/07/22, 09:57 AM
Hey Danielle! Nice to see you!
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2004/07/18, 10:35 PM
Well actually I have two questions.
1. I just researched the HIIT exercise and saw a routine on musclemedia.com. They gave an eight week routine and the first week's exercise is only 4 minutes, which you will do 3 times that week (the third time's should be 5 minutes). You have to switch off jogging and sprinting for 30 seconds each. By the eighth week, you will have moved up to 15 minutes. I was going to do this eight week program, but will that be enough to lose fat because I have read on here to do it for 20 minutes.
2. I read somewhere that in order to build muscle you should take a two day break between lifting instead of lifting everyday. I used to do the Firm tapes everyday because I wanted to bulk up my legs, but I noticed my legs went down. I changed into taking a two day break in between my workouts and my legs are seeming to get bulky. Am I right for doing this or can you get the bulking result if you do weight training everyday too?
Thanks!
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