HIIT Training on the Treadmill - 14 Minute Workout

Good stuff. I incorporate Tabata HIIT into my P90X routines for faster results. I love it.

I am on a dr program and he has me doing HIIT.
Do it on my treadmill too. 30-45 min. and I am done.
Warm up. Sprint. SLow down. Sprint. Doing 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 min. sprints.
YES it works I feel and I am tired when I get done.
I have lost 52 lbs since july.
THink it helps.

I have always used HIIT on the treadmill, it's the only way I like to workout on my treadmill...keeps me from getting bored. Sometimes I switch up my walking by walking sideways or backwards on the treadmill. That usually throws me for a loop and I've just finished a pretty intense workout!

Intervals are simply a great way to do more work in a set time-limited session. Rather than jogging at a set pace for a set time, you can do shurt bursts of sprints in between, to whatever intensity you wish.

Most of the time you take a set ratio that you push through your intervals on and any combination is possible so long as you push yourself.

I trained a Professional Hockey player a few years ago and HIIT was a huge part of that since a game on the ice is always interval based. As a Goalie myself, I'll go from 90% to 50% HR at any time in the game so I'm always running intervals to condition for whatever the game will bring.

The higher intensity does serve to stretch the an-aerobic threshold which varies from person to person but on average is around 85% Max HR. It's at this level where the body cannot process oxygen fast enough, so pushing that limit is essential for athletics in high intensity sports that require short bursts (Hockey, Football and Soccer to name a few).

My one suggestion would be to not get locked into a set-pace as your body will adapt to that over time. Instead, vary the time ratios that you sustain each level for so that you're pushing yourself to do as much work as possible in the Higher Intensity Intervals.

Cheers!

Interval training is, in my opinion, invaluable for fitness.

Such a good measure too, because as you get fitter, you notice you can start to breeze through the sessions and when that happens, you know you need to up it a bit.

I run on my treadmill between three and four times per week, one sesson is usually a longer, steady run for stamina, another session will be interval training and I vary it everytime, the other sessions, I will usually do what I feel I want to do at the time.

I've never got bored with treadmill training doing it this way, however, if I were to just do long, steady runs every single time, to be honest, I might have given it all up by now.

Boredom - bane of our lives :laugh: