Question About HIIT

[Travisli]

I’m trying to understand HIIT. I’ve had a few trainers explain it to me and I do believe I’m getting it. My question is can workouts like Imax 2 be considered a HIIT workout? Since you do a relatively mild form of cardio for 2-3 minutes in the step portion and then a high intensity blast for a couple minutes?

Travis

 

[SRP]

Imax 2 is considered interval training. I believe it's too long to be a true HIIT workout. My understanding is that HIIT intervals are VERY intense, and that because of that extreme intensity, the workout has to be shorter.

 

[LeanneM]

Hi Travis,

To piggyback on what Shannon said, when I asked a similar question last year, someone gave me the good advice that doing a workout like one of the Imaxes but just doing the intervals and the short recoveries (not the step portions in between) would be more of a true HIIT workout. Doing the middle segment of Kick Max (with the 10 blasts) would also be considered HIIT.

Hope this helps!

 

[Travisli]

Thank you ladies! I appreciate the responses!

Have a great day!