Friday, September 14, 2007

60 min running VS 10min Sprint

I only knew about this recently, and i thought its a good training program which i should share with everyone.

High Intensive Interval Training (HIIT) is the way to go if reducing bodyfats is your goal. No more hours and hours on the boring threadmill or bicycle machine to burn those calories off... but only to load them back later on. Why not Sprint for 10 minutes, and let your body automatically burn even more calories for the rest of the day even when you are watching TV.

To put in simple terms, HIIT means training at very high intensity at intervals - Sprint for 20 seconds and jog for 1min, and perform this in sets... For beginners, you can add in walking for maybe 30 seconds after jogging then continue with the sprint again.

I came across some readings which explains what exactly is HIIT , and what are the benefits of HIIT as compared to hours of cardio.

Some articles on HIIT from MYFIT.ca, Natural Physiques, Muscle Media, Keith Scotts, Spark People
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Anonymous said...

i strongly discourage less healthy pple or starters to try tis, ur heart capibilities and lung capacity will not be able to tolerate the intense acute flutuations

those starters or less healthy pple, jog consistently for 15min is almost killing them, they get faint spells etc, if u still tell them HIIT sprint 10mins... the after effects can be very very devastating cos once u stop the heart beat goes so fast n irregular n ur lung cant cope, u might collapse man, do take serious notes on how training shld be

for beginners or starters i still recommend gradual less intense but more frequent training, like jogging 1.5-2km slow pace for 2wks, then move to 2.5-3km slow pace for another 2wks,consisting of jog every 2days rest 1 day, after 1-2month consistent relac exercise u can slowly increase the pace and/or distance

September 19, 2007 at 11:25 AM

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