8 Reasons why HIT Cardio people lose Fat the Fastest

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  • PaulaStrom
    PaulaStrom Posts: 3 Member
    what is HIIT?
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    I'm glad to see this article on here. I dislike cardio and this is the only kind I do.
    In fact, if I remember correctly one study even suggested that 'steady state aerobics' actually makes your body MORE predisposed to storing fat. In another, a group that did an hour of steady state cardio for an hour a day 6 days per week for A YEAR (without dietary change) averaged an only three pound weight loss!
    I wish the old 'fat burning zone' chart would die.

    This is why it is important to progress, no matter what training you do (even if it is primarily steady state). Go longer, further, and throw in higher intensity every now and then.
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    It's all just wheel spinning without the calorie deficit. The counting comes first, before anything.

    I gained fat weight last spring training for my triathlons because it made me so hungry and I wasn't tracking.

    Then I ate into muscle when I cut too fast and wasn't accounting for the cardio burns.

    Result.

    Added fat, loss of muscle.

    Thankfully I've learnt how to cut/bulk/cut here on MFP to reverse the cardio damage.

    Now I can do all the high intensity stuff, but properly fuelled.

    I'd never use it as a way to lose weight though.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    I would say Insanity would be better suited for people over HIIT cardio!

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  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Well, I guess I need to google HIIT workouts then.

    You can start with Insanity, T-25, or P90X3.

    but yesterday he said Insanity was bad for you so maybe not that HIIT workout.
    No that wasn't him (or her), it was his (or her) desk.

    Are you sure it wasn't his mum?!
  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member
    This may seem daft but please can you tell us how do you know that you put down fat and lost muscle?
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    Dear Muscle and Fat loss guru,

    I prefer not to lose muscle. But thanks anyway.

    With Love,
    Pizza
  • Sbrn_
    Sbrn_ Posts: 351 Member

    Vince Delmonte

    Muscle and Fat loss guru

    Is that the joke?
  • Shropshire1959
    Shropshire1959 Posts: 982 Member

    Vince Delmonte

    Muscle and Fat loss guru

    Is that the joke?

    Sure looks like one :-p
  • rbiss
    rbiss Posts: 422 Member
    what is HIIT?

    High Intensity Interval Training. You spend most of the time in a sustainable cardio zone with short bursts of intensity.
  • PJPrimrose
    PJPrimrose Posts: 916 Member
    At what point do we crown Mr. Tomato (Delmonte..get it? get it? Har) Spam King?
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  • deksgrl
    deksgrl Posts: 7,237 Member
    At what point do we crown Mr. Tomato (Delmonte..get it? get it? Har) Spam King?

    Tomatoes and spam, part of a healthy diet..... or not.
  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
    At what point do we crown Mr. Tomato (Delmonte..get it? get it? Har) Spam King?

    This could be his queen

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  • rainbowxelephant
    rainbowxelephant Posts: 71 Member
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    REPORTED!!

    Best
  • rainbowxelephant
    rainbowxelephant Posts: 71 Member
    So Insanity isn't HIIT?

    Yes it is. It's super high intensity but still high intensity intervals. I've done it. I don't really like the way it's set up.. how you do a killer warm up, then stop dead with your heart pounding to stretch, then jump back into it.. Should just save the stretch for the end or do it before you have your heart rate up high. Asking for someone who isn't in very good shape to have a heart attack or injure themselves (but people who aren't already in decent shape shouldn't be doing Insanity anyways)
  • Topsking2010
    Topsking2010 Posts: 2,245 Member
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