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Anonymous
Hi /fit/

I do some amateur boxing
I want to do HIIT in the morning but don't want to lose much muscle (want to lose a bit of fat), what should I eat beforehand and do i have to wait for it to 'absorb' ?

is a protein shake ok ?
>> Anonymous
Some people will also say that HIIT helps build muscle due to its intense short bursts, rather than long use.

You should eat some carbs for energy around 30 minutes before, and then the protein afterwards.
>> Anonymous
>>117720

damn, was hoping it wouldnt be that long!
I have to leave work at 07:05, so i guess gotta get up at 6:10 or so
>> Anonymous
>>117720

Anybody with real knowledge of the human body knows what a sack of lies HIIT is. Short burst cardio was traditionally a Scandinavian technique that athletes used to build cardio endurance, not build muscle or lose fat.

Believing in HIIT as a proper method to lose fat is about as ridiculous as believing in the low carb Atkins shit.

>>117705

Don't do HIIT. Just run. Run eight miles in the morning wearing heavy work boots if you fucking have to, that's what pro boxers do. If your goal is losing fat, you need to focus on long runs or jogs and not fitness industry gimmicks.
>> Anonymous
>>117740
This makes me feel so much better

you have no idea ._.

thank you /fit/ (not OP btw)
>> Anonymous
>>117740
>>and not fitness industry gimmicks.

you're a fucking fool. he doesn't want to lose muscle and yet you're telling him to do long-period steady state cardio. fuck off and die. hiit a gimmick. fucking christ. and were the fuck did you get this running in heavy boots shit from, rocky?

>>117740
>>not build muscle or lose fat.

highly anerobic activity has a tendency to build muscle. sprinting does this, you're a fucking tool. you're thinking of something else entirely, and that was a method to improve the speed of long distance runners. cockbiter.
>> Anonymous
>>117740
and you know what the funny thing about this post is? boxing and boxing training is pretty much just another form of high intensity interval training. so i don't know where the fuck you or most of the people here get your ideas from.
>> Anonymous
>>117752

You're wrong in so many ways...I'm not even going to type up a rant. Although I will say I love how you COMPLETELY contradicted yourself in a mere two, extremely poorly typed up sentences. I'll let you hunt and peck until you notice where you made yourself look like a complete moron with a total contradiction.

>>117755

Do you think boxing is what they do to train for...boxing? They need high endurance training so that they are PREPARED for boxing. Hence the extremely long runs. Hence the constant jump roping. Almost all physical sports consist of start and stop movements...that's why you train with long cardio sessions so that your body has the endurance to handle them better.

Or, I guess you'll be the one to tell De La Hoya that he was "doin it wrong" by running upwards of 20 miles per day on sandy beaches in weighted clothes and boots. Yeah, YOU are obviously the boxing champ, not him. You know it all, buddy!
>> Anonymous
OP here,

I should mention that I amateur box, so thats only 3x 2 min rounds which is why HIIT is quite good for me.

The long runs etc is for pros who do the 12 rounds I think
>> Anonymous
>>117756
hello there... I belong to a sport that DOESN'T involve variable intensities... ROWING, the only manly thing to ever come from England...

anyway, our ENTIRE training regime is HIIT... not all tabata, distance interval or w/e... but ALL HIIT

our long runs (7+miles) are indian runs (aka - HIIT sprints)

our hours of power are HIIT involving an erg and bodyweight core exercise

we do HIIT squats
we do HIIT lunges
we do HIIT medicine ball work

our team's high school group is able to compete on par with most universities (hell, the junior novice team smokes ASU's varsity team by the end of a given season)

the only time we AREN'T doing HIIT is for erg tests, practice rows, and race day...

in addition, this type of schedule is what nearly all olympic and crash-b rowers use

and some of those guys are JACKED (weight lifting is a nearly nonexistant aspect for professional rowers).... in other words
learn 2 method of strong inference
>> Anonymous
>>117756
betcha that run was a fartlek
>> Anonymous
>>117756
>You know it all, buddy!
I'm not your buddy, guy!
>> Anonymous
>>117756

The only people who still use long steady state cardio to train for anything that's not a pure endurance sport are anachronistic idiots. It doesn't really work that well. People used to do it because they didn't know any better.