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HIIT Cardio Training

  • 23-03-2007 11:57am
    #1
    ianmc38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,754 ✭✭✭


    At the moment, I'm doing about 40 mins cardio pre weights every week (20 mins treadmill, 10 on the skiing thing and 2k on the rower). My weights session takes around an hour, so the whole routine and stretching / warm down afterwards is taking about 2 and a half hours. This is fine, but it's alot longer than I'd like to spend in the gym

    I'm pretty unfit having been a smoker for the past 7 years (stopped about 2 months ago). My cardio aims are to regain both the speed and endurance that I used to have when training regularly a few years ago.

    I've started reading up on the HIIT routines recently and was wondering if people had any experience with doing them? Can they be used to build cardio endurance say for running 10km?

    Any info would be great.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Dr4gul4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,411 ✭✭✭Dr4gul4


    This is weird, it's kind of like looking at a mirror of me. :D

    Perhaps you could separate you're cardio a little, i know i've had to do this recently, so designate one day specifically for cardio,a say the other 3 for a small bit of cardio to warm up,and then you're weights after.

    I have ofter wondered about HIIT myself, but i found it more productive to just focus on what i was doing at the time, at the moment i can run 6 K with out stopping ( on a good day ) this sunday, im doing a cardio only day, so im hoping to make it to 10 K, and thats only after 7 weeks of treadmill running, when i started i could just about run 2 K and i'd be ready to drop dead.

    Hope this has helped


  • #3
    Degsy
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    You're better off doing cardio AFTER your weights.


  • #4
    quozl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    ianmc38 wrote:
    I've started reading up on the HIIT routines recently and was wondering if people had any experience with doing them? Can they be used to build cardio endurance say for running 10km?
    The best way for you to improve your endurance now is to increase the number of miles you run per week and the length of your longest runs.

    Any cardio training you do will strengthen your heart but that's not going to be the limiting factor for you now trying to run 10k. Your aerobic conditioning will be. So run more often, and further.

    Check out the first 4 items in http://www.pfitzinger.com/labreports/longruns.shtml

    That article is about long-runs for marathoners but the first 4 items are pretty much related to weekly mileage and length of runs. They're the benefits you'll be getting by running further and more often, benefits that'll improve your 10k time more than interval training would.

    That doesn't mean don't do HIIT, just that if your aim is to run a 10k as fast as possible that more mileage would probably help more.


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