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HIIT - Wow!

  • 29-04-2011 9:11pm
    #1
    Lago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭


    Basically, I hate cardio. I love playing sports. Soccer, GAA, Basketball etc., I can play almost any of them for hours without stop. But jogging, sprinting, cycling etc. any exercise like that without a simultaneous goal in mind, I just hate them. So because of that, any exercise I got outside of playing sports and weight lifting was pretty limited.

    I have a treadmill so every once in a while, I'd go on it. I'd put the incline up to the highest and the speed to about 12km/h and just run. The most I could ever manage was about 8 minutes and it felt like an eternity. I would be so bored by the end. It was the same when they'd send us for long runs in PE or during fitness training for sports. I always thought it was lack of fitness. It didn't really make sense to me because when I played football, I was very fit and could run all game without getting tired.

    Now, I've read and heard loads of people that have a similar problem to me and they always sent they got by it with High Intestity Interval Training. I never bought into this. I always thought it was still just running, how could it be better?

    Well, today I tried it. Went on the treadmill, put the incline down to 5 and started switching between 5.6km/h (my rest) and 14-16km/h. I had no real time pattern, since I was just doing it to see if it was any good.

    All I can say is Wow! I got off the treadmill feeling great. I covered more ground than I usually do and I was running for about 11 minutes straight. Obviously, the reduced incline probably helped but that 11 minutes just flew by. It's too early to tell how much good it did me but at least now I'm actually motivated to do cardio at home, on my own. I feel like I could do that every day now.

    I love HIIT!


Comments

  • #2
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    The first time I did HIIT I felt wobbly and a bit sick :o Felt fine after a minute or two though!


  • #3
    Lago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Lago


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    The first time I did HIIT I felt wobbly and a bit sick :o Felt fine after a minute or two though!

    Actually, I was the same. I felt a bit light-headed for a few minutes, I felt great after that though


  • #4
    **Timbuk2**
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 7,396 Mod ✭✭✭✭**Timbuk2**


    It's a very efficient way of exercising though, I should do it more often - especially when I'm in a hurry!

    If you have access to a rowing machine, try it on that. A treadmill takes time to speed up from 5.6 to 14 (well not that much time, but still) whereas with a rowing machine you can just give it 120% when the 60 seconds (or whatever) is up!


  • #5
    Lago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭Lago


    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    It's a very efficient way of exercising though, I should do it more often - especially when I'm in a hurry!

    If you have access to a rowing machine, try it on that. A treadmill takes time to speed up from 5.6 to 14 (well not that much time, but still) whereas with a rowing machine you can just give it 120% when the 60 seconds (or whatever) is up!

    Unfortunately, I don't have a rowing machine handy. I'd love to since it would probably be a good way of working my back as well.


  • #6
    jive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,762 ✭✭✭jive


    Sounds extremely similar to myself. HIIT is challenging and you can try push the boat out a little more each week which makes it more fun than just running on the treadmill for as long as you can, imo. Look up POSE running technique. It helped my running improve loads as I was very bad at it (still not great but not half as bad as I was). Also initially your fitness increases rapidly with HIIT (in my case anyway)!


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