Moooooooonday. Get your bangers added into the Hexbear Workout Playlist.
I'm leaving this pinned up for a whole week so if you're seeing this on a Tuesday don't hesitate to share a song to get added to the playlist.
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Can someone pill me on HIIT vs cardio? Especially in terms of both getting stronger and losing fat.
HIIT tends to burn more calories, so by proxy more calories from fat, in a shorter time than steady state cardio.*
*Based on available research on energy systems and some somewhat crude math.
Even though it's a max of about 3-5 min of working time, the high intensity should burn more calories overall when compared to 30-60 min steady state. Since it's short and high intensity, you're using mostly the ATP-PC then Glycotic systems, so it's something like 70% ATP-PC, 20% Glycotic, 10% fat for the first 1-2/3ish minutes depending on the person. Then 60% Glycotic, 30% fat, 10% ATP-PC for the rest. Even though it's a smaller percentage, it ends up being a higher output of calories expended from fat.
There's also scant evidence about a thing called oxygen depletion that I'm not fully sold on and the research on it is iffy. But the idea is you build up such an "oxygen debt" within hit that your body overcompensates for 24-ish hours after and it raises your metabolic rate by like 5-10%. Again, far from proven but may exist.
A big side issue is that most HIIT programs aren't actually HIIT. They're some sort of mid-range cardio. You have to be able to keep your heart rate at like 90-95% of max for the on period and no lower than 80% in the off. Most online programs I've seen don't really care about that, but that's where research on HIIT has come from. Most of this research was also done on people in half-decent shape so for people going from nothing to HIIT theyre probably going to have a bad time.
That part about the calorie burning almost sounds too good to be true.
I'm in decent if deteriorated shape. Used to train 2-3 hours a day, now Im down to half a hour maybe, cause of the damn lockdown and me needing other people to feel like doing stuff
You'd likely be able to handle it without overtraining.
If nothing else I like it cus it's shorter so I can talk myself into 20 min of weights and then sprints easier than I can 30 min of jogging.