High Intensity Interval Training

Jason Calcanis is a guy that created a bit of a blog empire a few years ago before selling his business to AOL. As you can imagine Jason still has a personal blog and today he was writing about High Intensity Interval training. HIIT training is a method where you go all out for a few minutes (about 15 minutes) and then rest. If you have tried interval training before it is really great and exhausting. If you would like to be like a top blogger and do this style of interval training here are a few tips.

How to do HIIT

1. Use machines instead of free weights. You do not want to waste any time putting weights on bars as your break between exercises should only be 20 -30 seconds.

2. Use slightly lighter weights as your muscles will tire very quickly. And you are going to be gulping for breath really really soon.

3. Don’t rush through the exercises, rush between the exercises. Remember you are trying to push yourself during your sets and not rest between so the best method is to really push the weights hard on each set and then move to the next muscle group for the next set.

4. Try to not hit the same muscle group in consecutive sets. For example if you do bench press it will tax your pecs as well as triceps and shoulders so your next set should work your biceps or some part of your legs. Compound exercises (the ones that hit more than one muscle group) are going to be tough to do in a HIIT session but if you can strategically work it our ahead of time your workout will be much tougher and better for you.

There are many people including me that believe that higher intensity workouts are much better for you than long low intensity workouts. Give this method a try occasionally or even more often than that and the change up will really help to push your gains (or losses) much quicker than just regular workouts will. The other side effect of this high intensity method is that it will give you a much shorter workout.

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