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I used to be an endurance runner, and more recently over the past month switched to HIIT for my fat loss needs. Doing HIIT meant running every day would be detrimental to my progress, so I tried putting steady state cardio inbetween those HIIT days--unfortunately, this wasn't sustainable either for injury-susceptibility reasons.

Over the past few days, I've been trying to do cardio, but I could still feel those injuries creeping up on me, and thus decided to take it slow today. I would walk a mile, light jog one, and then walk another. Fortunately, my running instinct kicked in all too immediately, so I decided to try something new.

On my trail, there are lamp posts spaced out some 28 feet from each other very evenly, so it's a good setup for distance-based interval running. I decided to go all out despite the pain for one of these 28 foot distances, walk the remaining two, rinse repeat. To clarify, that's 28 feet of full sprint, 56 of walking. In this way, I was genuinely able to bust out the full on sprinting I just couldn't get to in tabata HIIT (thus improperly done). On my third mile of having a lot of fun with this and never really experiencing any drop in my sprinting speed, I decided to make it more even and sprint 28 feet, walk 28 feet, etc. In this way, my heart rate never went back down to walking levels, but always remained somewhere above steady state cardio.
>> Anonymous
In addition, you'd be surprised how much you can learn about your running style simply by full-on sprinting, as well as ways to improve it. For me, it meant keeping my right foot pushing off straight forward instead of slightly off to the side (a trend not active in my left foot, but never apparently outside of this experience). Also for the first time I learned how to REALLY use my abs to run--it's no longer any surprise why sprinters look so ripped compared to marathoners--to run intensely, your abs act as a stabilizing muscle and can actually allow your body to take more impact when you're pushing off.

But that's enough from me. Give it a try if you'd like. Pick a short distance interval and try it out for yourself. With HIIT, I came back home and sweated for a while. With this method, I came back disappointed from lack of sweat--but two minutes later, I rained.
>> HelpFag
You did three miles of HIIT?
>> Anonymous
If you can feel injuries creeping up you might want to consider swimming. You can do intervals in a pool too; go all out for 25m, then swim easy for 50m. Rinse repeat.
>> Anonymous
>>204577
I don't consider what I did to be your general HIIT routine, although I guess by semantics it is. The thing to note is that my intervals were so short as to prevent any real injury potential. When I did tabata, the lactic acid buildup forced me to slow down during the end of my sprints. With this, there's never any need to slow down during the sprint, and thus you can genuinely go full out. This is probably way out of the way in terms of concentrating on fat loss due to the lack of general unpleasantness of long-term intensity, but the short-termed-ness of the sprints really make it beneficial in way of training your ability to sprint. In a way, it's kind of like lifting low reps, many sets, and bigger weight--as opposed to HIIT, which is few reps, few sets, slightly less-than-this weight.