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[caryndugan]

Hi All,
Since time is always the enemy during my morning workout, I decided to try HIIT. After a 15 minute workout, I thought I was gonna pass out and my throat hurt for about 20 minutes. I went trough a lot of very cold water.

That said, I'm no stranger to the gym and I am in line with thinking that anything new is usually hard on your body until it starts to recognize what the heck is going on. I get that. But, can you answer me this... I usually do 45-1 hr of cardio a day then 1/2 hr of weights (all 5 X's a week). Is HIIT really going to take place of my original cardio routine. Do I do HIIT everytoher day(M,W,F) and stick with longer cardio on T/TH? I love that HIIT freed up some extra time for more weights this morning, but I felt a little guilty that I was not going for longer-or doing any cardio for a longer amount of time.

Thanks for any direction you may be able to provide.

caryn

[bigiz123]

why feel guilty, im sure u burned around the same number of calories as the longer intensity cardio, if not more

[swanso5]

HIIT is more effective as with normal low int / long duration cardio you only burn cal's for the time your doing it so if you're doing 5 x 1hr/week, you'll burn cal's for 5hrs/week from it...HIIT hasd an epoc effect effect on the body that burn's cal's for up to 36hrs after you've done it so with 3 x 20min sessions/week (1hr) you can burn fat for 20 x time in 4hrs less time

[caryndugan]

I appreciate the comments.

HIIT almost seems too good to be true if you're doing it right. I suppose the only thing that makes is not too good is the 100% exhaustive enegry you have to put forth. It's a workout!

[phate]

since u obviously are willing to put forth the effort, ive noticed that when you do HIIT training in the morning then its works better, since it gives ur body all day to burn the extra calories from ur revved up metabolism, also doing cardio in the morning before you eat nething burns up to 300% more calories according to a college study because ur bodies glycogen, which are ur energy stores, are already depleted from the 8-10 hours of fasting from sleeping, though i wouldnt recommend HIIT training without eatting because ur body could eat ur muscle for energy. Try it though, it definitely helps, and if ur worried about eatting muscle drink a strong cup of coffee straight, 20-30 minutes before doing cardio, the study showed it decresed catabolism.