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Category: HIIT! Heart-Pumping Interval Tips

  • Spin Class Tips

    Before you hop on the bike for your next Spin class, read these tips to maximize your work out and prevent injury. Establish an Aerobic Base To actively participate in a Spinning program, you must be able to perform 30 minutes of light-moderate cardiorespiratory activity (65-75% Heart Rate Max) 5 days per week. Lower Your Shoulders…

  • Rules for Exercising, Eating, and Entity

    Are you an elite competitor training for the next bodybuilding event? Or, Are you a fitness novice struggling to adopt a stable exercise routine? Or,  Are you some place in the middle maintaining an active, healthy lifestyle, while always in search of ways to increase your stamina, muscle mass, and improve diet? According to Jim Stoppani, Ph.D,…

  • Simplify Your Fitness and Try a HIIT Work Out Today!

    Many of us have busy lives, which often allows little time to exercise.  The solution? High Intensity Interval Training, or “HIIT.”  HIIT enables you to work out for less time and receive better results.  This heart-pumping, vigorous type of training features short, intense cardiovascular exercises designed to enhance athletic performance and overall health and fitness levels. To begin a HIIT…

  • Try a HIIT Work Out Today!

    Here’s why! With Interval Training, you are able to work harder and burn more calories in a shorter period of time. Less time spent at the gym and more calories expended? Sounds like a plan! Interval Training begins at Stage II of the three total stages of  Cardiorespiratory Training (also referred to as Zone II Lactate Threshold).…

  • High Intensity Interval Training Work Out…

    This week’s “HIIT Day Wednesday” post features an example of a killer interval training regimen, which can be performed with multiple mediums at any gym – running on the treadmill, cycling/spinning, elliptical, and even weights! I am recommending Tabata Intervals.  Yes, this form of interval training is widely discussed in the fitness literature and can be considered…

  • Here’s the breakdown on Training Zones!

    As with weight training, cardiorespiratory training also falls under the principle of specificity – meaning, the body will adapt to the level of stress placed on it and therefore requires more or varied amounts of stress to elicit a higher level of adaptation in the future (that is, become a healthier, fitter you!) With this said,…