Beating my head into a wall... what is going on!

bingfit221

DawnieB1977 wrote: »

I suppose it depends what exercise you're doing for HIIT. If I do it on the treadmill, I'd be ok to do something after. If I did half hour on the rower I'd probably collapse after! It also depends how long your recovery period is, and how long the intense bit is. I was doing 2 mins running, 1 min recovery and repeat the other day. Only 4 times, but that was hard.

I usually do some HIIT in my PT sessions, but not as long as 30 mins as it would take up too much of the session. We do some tabata stuff too.

^^ THIS!

I do tabata style too with my clients and not as long as 30 minutes unless it is one of my people who meet me 5 days a week because they are loaded ugh. I wish I could pay for a personal trainer 5 days a week haha.

If I do it in the treadmill I am fine too. I have been running for 10 years so that's probably why. Rowing? I'd be dead too. Haha. I do intense 5k every Sunday as fast as I can possibly go then trying to do the rest of my workout is a struggle ughhh but it gets done.

bingfit221

psulemon wrote: »

ana3067 wrote: »

As for HIIT, regardless of your max heart rate HIIT should still be under 30 minutes a session. Most people who actually do HIIT will agree with this, and have agreed with this in other posts in which OPs post about doing HIIT like 4-5x a week or doing it for an hour or following it up with more cardio etc.

What would be the issue if the OP does HIIT for 60 minutes? Pending she is recovering from her workouts, I do see it as an issue.

Confused by this. You see HIIT for 60 minutes as an issue if I am not recovering or it is an issue even if I am recovering? Sorry... wording threw me off a bit.

girlviernes

I agree that it's probably water weight, but also you are already very lean so it's just plain going to be hard to get leaner and maintain that.

DawnieB1977

bingfit221 wrote: »

DawnieB1977 wrote: »

I suppose it depends what exercise you're doing for HIIT. If I do it on the treadmill, I'd be ok to do something after. If I did half hour on the rower I'd probably collapse after! It also depends how long your recovery period is, and how long the intense bit is. I was doing 2 mins running, 1 min recovery and repeat the other day. Only 4 times, but that was hard.

I usually do some HIIT in my PT sessions, but not as long as 30 mins as it would take up too much of the session. We do some tabata stuff too.

^^ THIS!

I do tabata style too with my clients and not as long as 30 minutes unless it is one of my people who meet me 5 days a week because they are loaded ugh. I wish I could pay for a personal trainer 5 days a week haha.

If I do it in the treadmill I am fine too. I have been running for 10 years so that's probably why. Rowing? I'd be dead too. Haha. I do intense 5k every Sunday as fast as I can possibly go then trying to do the rest of my workout is a struggle ughhh but it gets done.

Yeah, me too, I'd love to do PT every day! I do it twice most weeks, but it's not too bad, about £20 ($35 roughly) an hour.

My gym is starting a new class called Armageddon, which is kind of like HIIT/circuits, and that's for 45 mins.