HIIT: HIGH INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING

HIIT - High Intensity Interval Training has been around for many years. It is also known as interval training, Tabata, Burst, Surge Training. Here at the Trainers Edge, we continue to educate ourselves in ways to help our members and clients to achieve the health status, keep up their healthy lifestyle, and help them get over plateaus if one exists. HIIT is shown to help with weight loss, increase metabolism, shift hormone levels, stimulate the anti-aging hormone, HGH- human growth hormone, it also turns on genes that promote the growth of new blood vessels, make blood vessels more flexible, intensify the body’s defenses against harmful antioxidants, and ease low-level inflammation.

Here are some basics when engaging in HIIT:

• High intensity interval training should last long enough and be strenuous enough that you are out of breath- 90% of your maximum heart rate.
• Rest periods should be long enough to catch your breath but not too long where your heart rate slows to its resting rate.
• ALWAYS WARM UP FIRST
• Do not do high intensity interval training on consecutive days. Rest between training allowing your body to recuperate.

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