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Anonymous
Sup /fit/? What do you guys think of HIIT? Is all this hype justified or is it bogus? Also do you think an hour of hardcore mountainbiking would be better instead? I tried that last year and even though i built up and burned enough calories to eat well, i didnt seem to burn off all my fat. I reached the point where i would do 60km a day sometimes but still..
>> Anonymous
Intensity is where it counts, you could do far more in 30 minutes of intense exercise than in 1 hour of casual exercise (Provided you do it right).
Cycling is great, but it limits the muscle groups being used to specific leg / lower body muscles (The quads and muscles outside the thighs) so you'll need far more to keep fit. In addition, having a rounder workout routine will help cycling; a stronger core increases stability and control, better arms and back help in climbs and prevents injury.
>> Anonymous
I did HIIT for 2 months over the summer, working with a personal trainer to learn the method so I could do it out at school on my own. I got some really awesome gains, every exercise caused muscular failure, and a full body workout literally took me 30 minutes. I have to say that without the personal trainer, I just didn't see the gains I was used to. This is because HIIT requires a workout partner to use effectively. Timing, recording, and setting up your next weight, then you guys switch.

For those of you who don't know, HIIT is a method developed by the guy who developed Nautilus training equipment for old ladies. This was because it was found they could workout just as easily as anyone else, if only they could do sets in minutes, instead of reps.

In other words, you are pushing the weight for 10 seconds, then releasing the weight for 10 second, and you are doing that for 2:00 minutes, or until muscular failure. If you can do more than 2:00 minutes you need more weight, if you can't quite get there stick it, if you aren't even close less weight (you get the idea)

As you can see, counting 10 seconds in your head, then another 10 second, and then trying to focus on a clock counting 2:00 minutes is hard, but with a nice sports watch you could muster it. Like i said, if you work out alone I think conventional methods are still superior, and besides the HIIT method just proves that in our day to day routines we just don't fucking hit the gym with the intensity required. HIIT just brings that intensity out of us through its methodology.

tl;dr

HIIT really amazing, but hard to do alone.
>> Anonymous
This is relevant to my interests. Can Anon provide more details?
>> Anonymous
www.crossfit.com
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>> Anonymous
>>38051
Cycling actually helped me buff my back and arms and lower abs a lot. In my gym there is this aerobic rowing machine do you think I could do HIIT on it?
>>38062
Thanks for the awesome feedback mate, Ill ask the gym owner if I can arrange a trainer to assist me or get a good watch. Any watch you preffer?
>> Anonymous
>>38107
If the rowing machine(called an erg btw) was made by Concept2, and you have the display on time/500m it should be fairly easy to set up HIIT.
>> Anonymous
>>38062
This anon seems to be talking about HIT, a different protocol used for bodybuilding.
>> Anonymous
>>38079
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_training
>> Anonymous
>>38050

OP, to answer your question, bicycling is a sort of paradoxical exercise. On the one hand, you can be a very fit bicyclists and also be fat. The reason is that bicycling is the most energy efficient form of travel ever invented by mankind. You burn fewer calories per mile traveled than any other method of locomotion.

And on downhill sections, fat people actually have an advantage. The marathon bicyclists who do the Tour De France are very lean, but many top bicyclists are rather overweight. They're very fit in terms of muscle and cardiovascular health but they don't burn a lot of calories.
>> Anonymous
>>39124
oops yeah, totally misread.

HIIT seems to be /fit/s obsession lately. I'll have to read more about it.
>> Anonymous
We used to do HIIT workouts once a week during high school when I did sprints and it worked great. Just find a track to run around and figure out how fast your best mile is and then shave a few seconds off it so you can figure out your 200m and 400m times.
You'll want to die halfway through it but it's worth it in the end.
>> Anonymous
is it easy to do HIIT wrong? if I run like there's no tomorrow (I'm talking maxing out the treadmill) for a minute and then rest for 2-3 is it ok? do I need to follow instructions EXACTLY?
>> Anonymous
>>38050
aerobic training is energy system training. in the end you teach your body to do the same amount of work for less energy, or rather your body becomes more efficient in doing the same amount of work. hiit is bettah.
>> Anonymous
>>39126And on downhill sections, fat people actually have an advantage.
How so?
>> Anonymous
since summer is coming up I current do HIIT 2x a week and normal cardio 3x a week.

Takes more than just cardio bro. Get your diet in check.
>> Anonymous
>>39425
More friction because they weigh more.
>> Anonymous
>>39477
Thus, the terminal velocity is roughly proportional to the square root of the ratio of M/A. Scaling reveals that larger cyclists have a greater ratio of mass to frontal area. They therefore descend hills faster as a consequence of purely physical, not physiological, laws. Since the larger cyclist has a greater mass, gravity acts on him or her with a greater force than it does on a smaller cyclist. (Note: A common misconception is to note the equal acceleration of two different sized objects in free fall in a vacuum, and assume that the force of gravity on both is equal. The force on the more massive object is greater, being exactly proportional to mass, which is why the more massive object is accelerated at the same rate as the less massive one.) While the larger cyclist also has a greater absolute frontal area than the smaller cyclist, the difference is not as great as that for their masses.