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HIIT Anonymous
I'd just like to clear something up for all of these shitposts I see on here about HIIT.

You aren't doing HIIT six times per week for 30 minutes a session. This is impossible. Your body CANNOT sustain such energy outputs unless you are already borderline superhuman.

If you are doing what you consider to be HIIT six times per week, you're doing it completely wrong. Especially those jewbags describing Tabata.

Olympic level athletes fail after six minutes of tabata. OLYMPIC RUNNERS FAIL AFTER SIX MINUTES OF TABATA. You aren't this fit. You aren't doing more on a daily regular basis.

YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.

That is all.
>> Anonymous
So can anyone explain the proper way to do HIIT
>> Anonymous
Thankyou.
I'm tired of seeing posts like:
>I'm 5'1" 300 lbs. and thinking of doing HIIT. Would 20 min in the morning, 20min at night; 7 days a week be good for me?
>> Anonymous
>>183507

You don't have to do Tabata. That is, 30 seconds intervals with 30 second "rests."

HIIT is relative to the individual. Try to determine your limit. Next time you're running or on an elliptical or whatever (no treadmills), try to max out your body. Go as fast and as hard as is possible for you to do. Go balls out to the fucking wall using all possible energy your body has. You will fail very quickly.

Once you have failed, check to see how long it took for you to fail. From there, try to figure out how to modify the intensity so that you could approach failure in a given time.

Say you sprint like crazy and fail in 20 seconds. Scale back your sprint so that you are on the verge of failure in 30 seconds to 1 minute. This is your high intensity interval. From there, add a rest interval where you are still doing something. Go from a fast run into a medium jog, for instance.

Keep doing this. As you go, you'll find that your intervals get more intense and you may be able to do more intervals consecutively. However, at the end of a good HIIT session, you will feel like dying. You might even throw up. No joke.

Eventually your VO2 Max levels will start to rise. Eventually your failure will be determined more by lack of oxygen than acid buildup in your muscles. This is your goal.
>> Anonymous
since i've starteded doing HIIT i've been missing a day or two of running because i just don't feel like running the day after


i don't like this :'(
>> Anonymous
Just to clear it up, Tabata is 20 second intervals with 10 seconds rest.
>> Anonymous
>>183523

Do some weight training on those days instead.
>> Anonymous
>>183513
>Say you sprint like crazy and fail in 20 seconds. Scale back your sprint so that you are on the verge of failure in 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Why would you want to do that when 20/10 intervals work just fine?
>> Anonymous
>>183546
it's just an example, you tailor the interval times for what you want to do and what your body can handle
>> Johnny W. !!FujYd9M+iKv
>>183546
Because HIIT has been shown to work consistently when done right...

Also, you'll be luck to do HIIT 4 times a week.
>> Anonymous
Anyone else notice HIIT stops improving distance running up to a point? I'm training for USMC boot camp, and although HIIT has improved my mile time, from 7:50 to 6:20 in 2 months, it feels like I fall apart after 2 miles, when I need to be running at least 3 miles at a consistent pace. Any thoughts on this?
>> Anonymous
>>183505
>Olympic level athletes fail after six minutes of tabata. OLYMPIC RUNNERS FAIL AFTER SIX MINUTES OF TABATA. You aren't this fit.

you are full of fucking stupid, you do realize that BECAUSE olympic athletes are able to push their body's harder, they are able to reach fail faster.

>>183677
some of it is mental. without really doing long cardio, your body and mind don't grow accustomed to doing them
>> Anonymous
>>183647
Would you be kind enough to actually make some sense when replying?
>> Anonymous
>>183691
i hate you for how dumb you are
>> Anonymous
>>183711

Please leave and take your stupid with you. You have no idea what the fuck you are talking about whatsoever.

Maxing out is maxing out whether you are an olympic athlete or not. Granted, those athletes probably won't kill themselves in the process whereas a 300 lb bitchtits fatty likely would.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
>> Anonymous
>>183755

Sorry, this last post was targetted at:
>>183691

And not targetted at

>>183711


Apologies for being retarded.
>> Anonymous
Relevant to shitposts accumulating on front page...
bump
>> Anonymous
I certainly was doing 30min HIIT 5 times a week for 2 weeks, but then I burnt out.

Normal cardio is a breeze now
>> JESUS
>>184876
I hope that 30 min includes warmups and cooldowns cause if you're pushing hiit till 30 mins youre not doing it right.

I think hiit should not increase 15 min. i.e. by the 15th min you must be feeling like dying.
>> H
>>184884
Not doing it right according to what? Shit you read on the internet?
30 mins is fine. Much more than that would push me into a catabolic state though.

The reason for HIIT being 20 mins is because that's the average time determined for beneficial effects to the cardiopulmonary system
>> Anonymous
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ITT: dumb people think there's only one CORRECT way to work-out, and accuse all other variations, however slight, of being blasphemy.
>> Anonymous
>>184894

No, you fucking double nigger. You weren't doing it right AT ALL. Fuck you and your vainglorious bullshit. Seriously. Don't get me wrong, that's not to say you weren't getting a good workout, I'm not debating that aspect of it at all. Rather, what I'm saying is that if you were doing HIIT the way it was intended, you could not possibly sustain 30 minutes of output.

The fittest people in the fucking world when going as hard as they can possibly will themselves to go will burn out in in very small amounts of time. How much, exactly, depends on the nature of what they are doing. Nevertheless, a world class runner can do a high intensity sprint and still burn out in 30 seconds.

You aren't even close to that fit. I mean, for fuck's sake. None of us here are. We're all wasting time posting on 4chan instead of devoting our lives singularly to being fit.

So that's why you were doing it wrong, you fucking mouthbreathing cumstain. Your posts are like a dose of AIDS to anybody reading them.
>> Anonymous
>>185147

So you're saying people aren't doing it right because they aren't running at maximum intensity?

Now I'm not fitness buff but I am fit, I can run a good 12 miles at a respectable pace and have decent upper body strength, and I am certain that with my OWN parameters I could do intervals for 30 minutes.

i.e. Jog for 2 mins to recover heart rate, Run at a high intensity for 2-3 minutes to raise heart rate.

The first post is perfectly valid though, people saying that they aren't fit and are planning on getting fit by running X miles 3 times every day for a week are overshooting a lot.
>> Anonymous
HIIT: You will fail, but if done frequently and properly (relative to each individual), your failure will be delayed.
>> Anonymous
ITT we don't understand the words 'high intensity'

HIIT is fucking HIGH INTENSITY interval training. That means you're going to DIE if you do it for 30 minutes.

30 minutes workout with intervals is just plain INTERVAL TRAINING.
>> Anonymous
>>185170
I thought the whole point of interval training was that you alternated HIGH INTENSITY bursts with moderate intensity recovery periods in order for it to be sustainable.
>> Anonymous
>>185173
But you can hardly call 30 seconds moderate jogging and 30 seconds rest for half an hour, "high intensity" interval training.