one more time...
Now that you have that song stuck in your head ;)
Have any of you ever done a HIIT workout?
What's HIIT you ask? It is High Intensity Interval Training.
A HIIT session often consists of a warm up period of exercise, followed by three to ten repetitions of high intensity exercise, separated by medium intensity exercise for recovery, and ending with a period of cool down exercise. The high intensity exercise should be done at near maximum intensity. The medium exercise should be about 50% intensity. The number of repetitions and length of each depends on the exercise, but may be as little as three repetitions with just 20 seconds of intense exercise.
So now that you know what it is, here's one that you can do at home without any equipment (or you could add weights if you're really hardcore like Kelli).
Sprint (or move as fast as you can) 100 meters
10 push- ups
Sprint (or move as fast as you can) 100 meters
10 lunges (5 each side)
Sprint (or move as fast as you can) 100 meters
10 pull- ups (or overhead lat pulls)
Sprint (or move as fast as you can) 100 meters
10 burpees
Sprint (or move as fast as you can) 100 meters
10 squats
Sprint (or move as fast as you can) 100 meters
30 crunches
It's a quick workout that gets your heart rate up and hits all the major muscle groups.
Every once in awhile I can get my kids to join me for a HIIT. They don't always run the full distance, but they try their hardest to keep up on everything else.
This is Junior and me after the HIIT I listed above. Some day I might get a serious picture out of him =)
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