Fitness crazes come and go, but one trend that seems to be enjoying some long-term life in gyms and personal training sessions is high-intensity interval training, also known as HiiT, high-intensity intermittent exercise (HiiE) and sprint interval training (SIT). It’s not for everyone, but it has the potential to kick your fitness level and fat loss up significantly.
Are you still doing steady-state cardio? Why not bump it up a notch and introduce some high-intensity workouts? Here are five reasons why high-intensity interval training is one of the best ways to get into better shape.
Are you stuck in your comfort zone? Comfort zones feel good but they also limit your fitness gains. Discover tips for breaking out of your exercise comfort zone and how it can help you achieve your fitness goals.
Consuming caffeine before a workout could work in your favor if you do endurance exercise like running or cycling – but what about high-intensity exercise like interval training? Will caffeine help you here too? Find out what research shows about high-intensity exercise performance and caffeine.
The key to staying a healthy weight is to burn more calories not just when you’re exercising but all the time – even when you’re at rest. Fortunately, there are a number of ways you can do that. Discover five ways to burn more calories even when you aren’t working out.
Are you seeing improvements in your fitness level or is your fitness routine on cruise control? Routine is good because it means you’re working out consistently, but you also have to shake up your routine to keep your body guessing. Shocking your body with a new cardio routine can further your fitness level and help you break through a weight loss plateau.
Could your fitness routine use more balance? If you do high-intensity workouts, adding a relaxing yoga workout to your routine can help you recover in more ways than one. Discover the benefits of yoga and how it can improve your exercise performance as well as your mood.
Research suggests that high-intensity exercise is better than long periods of cardio for shedding body fat – but have you ever wondered why? After all, trainers used to tell you to exercise in the fat-burning zone for fat loss. Find out why higher intensity workouts where you’re NOT in the fat-burning zone work so well for fat loss.
Preview clip of Cathe Friedrich’s X10 workout video. Though this is one continuous clip, keep in mind that X10 is really five 24 to 29 minute workouts, and has 12 premixed workouts that offer an incredible amount of different intensity workout options and times. X10 features short high intensity cardio segments that when combined with
You may have heard that you’ll burn more fat if you do cardio in a fasted state, first thing in the morning. Is there any truth to this idea? Most importantly is it likely to help you achieve your fitness goals? Get the full scoop on fasted cardio.
Should you invest in a heart rate monitor? A heart rate monitor isn’t an absolute necessity. After all, there are other ways to measure exercise intensity – but there are advantages to using one. Find out what they are.
Cathe’s new X10 workout really is much more than what you may think at first glance. X10 will contain five 10 minute workouts, but this does not include the warm-up, cool down or stretch. With everything included each of the 5 workouts will probably come in around 20 to 25 minutes each. But you don’t
