What about doing HIIT on your off days? I recently posted a thread in success stories, but I have a backwards story. I attribute my success to lifting though. I used to be a cardio slave, but now I lift 3x/week and take a class for cardio 2x/week. I think most people here do moderate intensity cardio on off days. Hope more people will chime in for you.

Here's the link to my thread: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/679960-it-s-not-all-about-the-scale-my-man-muscles-pic-heavy

Yes, you can do cardio! But I actually wouldn't recommend HIIT. It can be really hard on your body and derail recovery when combined with heavy lifting. I'd just do moderate steady state cardio.

i do cardio. sometimes 2-3 times a week. sometimes 6 days a week.

what i typically do is walk on the treadmill, or go for a light job. on the treadmill i walk at a 3.4 at a 6.0 incline for about 30 min. if i jog i typically do 30 min, about 11 mi or so mile.

kinda just depends on my week and how much free time i have :-)

I need to lose 50 lbs, love heavy wt training, BUT I sit in front of a computer 40+ hrs a week. IMO my wt training is NOT enough for ME. I do cardio 4-6x a week, but I rarely do Hiit it wears me out too much to lilft as heavy as I'd like. I take "expert" opinions with a grain of salt. I read a lot about health,fitness, training,eating, etc toss out stuff that sounds like BS.

I understand some people over do cardio, that doesn't mean cardio isn't necessary for some. I honestly think it depends on your lifestyle. I'm sitting a LOT I get very little activity throughout the day. Bottom line, only YOU can be the best judge of how much (if any) cardio works for YOU. I often do cardio during my lunch hr, I have a gym at home for wt training

I am doing cardio after lifting right now because I can only go to the gym so many days per week due to childcare issues (my hubby is out of town on business so I’ve been a single mom to a 22 month old for the last 7 months). Now that the lifting is light compared to what I was used to, it's not bad and I still have energy to bust out 45 minutes on the elliptical afterwards. I fully expect that once I start getting closer to my max, it will be increasingly harder to have enough energy to do cardio afterwards. I know it will affect my lifts in the future as well. I am just trying to maintain muscle mass while I cut fat right now. In that case, I will try to do cardio on my non lifting days....I say try because I'm pretty sure that is a lost cause as my baby doesn't like to cooperate when I try to workout at home or I’m too darn tired!

By the way...I can't access the article right now (will try later) but the guy who made the program (Mendhi?) seems pretty anti HIIT not that that is scientific evidence or anything. He actually mentions some study where they found that HIIT burns less than constant state cardio and that the afterburn is the same. I think HIIT is the newest craze and something else will be hot this time next year. I do know that it helped me increase speed but I'm not so sure about the overall calorie burn. Plus it made me nauseous and that's no fun for anyone

Yeah, I've been using it occasionally for speed training so I can get done with my running quicker. What Rae said does make sense. It does seem like it would be a lot harder on your body than just moderate cardio.

Here is the article....http://stronglifts.com/hiit-interval-training-fat-loss/ I think it's interesting. I also think that if you like HIIT, stick with it. Personally, I found it to be counter-productive.

I am curious, what HIIT programs do you do?