High intensity interval training (HIIT) promotes similar health benefits and weight-loss in a fraction of the time compared to steady-state cardio. How can we implement HIIT in a real-world setting to reap the benefits?
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High intensity interval training may be beneficial to those who want to lose weight and gain cardiovascular health benefits in a shorter amount of time compared to moderate intensity steady-state cardio (SSC). It has been confirmed that SSC can promote metabolic and cardiovascular health and so have been at the forefront of weight, blood glucose (Warbourton, 2006b; Boutcher, 2011; Boule et al, 2001) and blood pressure control (Skutnik et al, 2016). HIIT has made claims to achieve similar results (Falcone et al, 2015; Jelleyman et al, 2015; Rognmo et al, 2004; Little et al, 2011) in just half (Hood et al, 2011, Garber et al, 2011) or one-third of the time (Skutnik et al, 2016). The idea of interval training is not a new concept, the Wingate protocol has been introduced for research purposes in 1974, however, nowadays there are lots of different types of high intensity interval trainings used. In recent decades, health practitioners have followed the exercise recommendations of the American College of Sports Medicine on moderate intensity exercise, which said to be minimum of 150 minutes for the wider public (Whaley, 2006). [...]
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