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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.
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