Wednesday, March 27, 2013

What Are The Risks Of Doing HIIT?

By Russ Hollywood


Today we are going to be looking into HIIT to help you get more from your workouts. Too many fitness enthusiasts suffer unnecessary setbacks in the gym because they are not taking the time to weigh up the possible risks beforehand.

We live in an impatient world. A world where gym users rush into buying products like creatine with no idea what it actually does for them.

On the subject of high intensity interval training, many individuals do not realize the potentially big risks to their health if they get it wrong. []

The overwhelming majority of gym users who wish to adopt this method into their workout program are more interested in the potential fat loss benefits it could yield. However, it would be foolish to jump in without first addressing the two most common risks. They are:

1) What is the recommended frequency for interval training?

2) Learn how to protect yourself against niggling injuries with one simple step.

One of the biggest myths of the gym is that more training means better results. This myth was born in the early 1980's with the rise of the aerobics home workout phenomenon. People would perform long, drawn out cardio workouts every single day. If you adopt this approach here, however, you will damage your own results.

With the interval method, the results do not happen when you are in the gym working out. They occur after you have left. Your body will continue to burn off calories, more specifically body fat, at almost 27% higher than the usual rate and this period lasts a mighty 14 hours. Some call it the afterburn effect, but to fitness professionals this is known as excess post-exercise oxygen consumption. If you go back to the gym before you have allowed time for this vital recovery period you hinder your own results, so keep your hit sessions at a maximum of three per week.

Injuries can occur during high intensity workouts, making this particular style of exercise a very dangerous thing to throw into your program if you don't take the time you research it beforehand. Usually this is due to lack of warm-up exercises.

A warm-up need only take five minutes and the benefits are clear. However, we live in an impatient world where folks want to get in and out of the gym as quickly as humanly possible and this sometimes means skipping the warm-up and cool-down sessions. Much like if you tried using whey protein or creatine supplements without researching them first. this only comes back to haunt you and your hiit sessions will suffer as a result.




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