It's been a bit. So I have a new workout partner!! Chris has decided to join me during my workouts periodically at the gym and it has been super motivational. Working out with my best buddy is fantastic and I have been training him since he joined! The other good thing is I get to spend time with him. Sometimes after a long day at work, 90 minutes at the gym seems exhausting and I don't like missing out on Chris and Summer time. Viola! I get the best of both! Chris joins me during some of my cardio workouts as well, but I usually do 1 hour of cardio 6 days a week. This is a little much for someone just beginning, so on the days that he joins I have been showing him H.I.I.T or High Intesity Interval Training. HIIT is done for about 30 to 35 minutes and you are doing HIGH resistance, we're talking sweating bullets, to maximize fat burn in a short amount of time. I rotate the machines that I practice this on. On some machines, I have burned as much as 450-500 calories in 35 minutes! The key is finding your comfort zone and then challenging that. When doing HIIT on your highest intensity, you should not be able to carry on a conversation. If you were to take a resistance on a machine and then transfer that to a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the most difficult), your goal in HIIT is to maintain from a 6 to a 10 on intervals throughout the workout. I usually begin the first 2 minutes at a 5 on my scale of intesity. It then looks something like this:
Minutes Intensity
0-2 5
2-3 6
3-4 7
4-5 8
5-6 9
6-7 7
7-8 8
8-9 9
9-11 10
11-12 6
12-13 7
13-14 8
14-16 9
16-17 7
17-18 8
18-19 9
19-21 10
21-22 6
22-23 7
23-24 8
24-25 9
25-26 10
26-28 12 (This is when it takes everything you have to keep going!)
28-30 5
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