Circuit Training vs. HIIT

gbel1975
gbel1975 Posts: 86 Member
edited November 11 in Fitness and Exercise
Can someone briefly explain the difference between circuit training and HIIT? I've read both are good for stamina, endurance, efficient use of exercise time, etc. But I'm still not clear on the different benefits of each or what makes on different than the other.

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  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    edited February 2015
    What makes one different from the other. For personal experience HIIT is way harder than circuit training. HIIT takes more to do. You go to get your heart rate high. HIIT you cannot do as long as circuit training.

    Now if you are feeling like you can save the world you can try to do both. It is called cardio acceleration where you do cardio on the rest between sets. Although circuit training (my experience) there are no rest in between exercises. So for example a workout can look like.

    Bench the sets and weight do not really matter per say
    jump rope as fast as I can for 30 sec
    curls set one
    jump rope 30 sec
    any tricep exercises one set
    jump rope 30 sec

    That is round one. Rinse repeat until ( my experience) failure on all sets. I tend to have a set number of skips I want in the 30 secs. If it drops by a certain amount then it becomes failure to me.

    Also it is hard to say like which one is better for weight loss, or health, etc. . . . .
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