HIIT traing

nikhilarajan93
nikhilarajan93 Posts: 1 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Is HIIT training helpfull???

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  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    edited July 2015
    For what???

  • malkelly789
    malkelly789 Posts: 5 Member
    Hiit training will burn more calories in a short time done right with no slacking it gets results
  • jimmmer
    jimmmer Posts: 3,515 Member
    If you already have some level of exercise experience and have built decent connective tissue and muscle firing patterns and are injury-free (and non-injury prone)? Sure, it can be great for increasing V02Max.

    If you have a history of injury. Bad form. Aren't sufficiently fit enough to actually achieve the H in HIIT. Don't bother...
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Depends on your fitness goals, your current fitness level, your capabilities....

    For me it's a waste of time. When I do interval training it's typically for an hour as that is more appropriate for my goals and fitness level.

    HIIT isn't magic, short term improvements can be spectacular (for some people) but that doesn't translate into long term benefits over and above other styles of training. For *many* it's a useful part of their overall training plan and is time efficient.

    Calorie burns are often wildly exaggerated (hard to accurately measure).
  • FitPhillygirl
    FitPhillygirl Posts: 7,124 Member
    sijomial wrote: »
    Calorie burns are often wildly exaggerated (hard to accurately measure).

    I have found this to be true as well. When I do HIIT workouts with my Polar FT 7, my calorie burns are all over the place and never the same from day to day even though my intern it is almost the same. I now use it only to push myself harder during each workout.
  • jimmmer
    jimmmer Posts: 3,515 Member
    Eileen_S wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Calorie burns are often wildly exaggerated (hard to accurately measure).

    I have found this to be true as well. When I do HIIT workouts with my Polar FT 7, my calorie burns are all over the place and never the same from day to day even though my intern it is almost the same. I now use it only to push myself harder during each workout.

    That's because the algorithm in your Polar that determines your calorie burn is using the assumption that you heart rate is elevated because of steady-state activity. Therefore it miscalculates your burn.

    These things are fine for steady-state aerobic activities. Non aerobic activities such as strength training, HIIT, Yoga, etc would need a redesigned device that had an algorithm that could tie the elevated heart rate from those activities to their metabolic effects. I believe that some of the higher end Polars have incorporated such a thing specifically for strength training...
  • kwtilbury
    kwtilbury Posts: 1,234 Member
    HIIT is a great way to increase fitness and burn calories efficiently, but you've got to really push yourself and keep the intensity level high.
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    edited July 2015
    malkelly789 wrote: »
    Hiit training will burn more calories in a short time

    More calories than doing nothing, certainly.

    If you're really doing HIIT then the actual calorie expenditure is fairly low.

    I'd support the points upthread that HIIT can be a useful part of an overall training scheme for some people, but it's not some kind of panacea.

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