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I had heard that even a brief bit of HIIT has all of the benefits of longer exercise times... Does this refute that or give evidence in support of that?

by th0ma5 10y ago

etrautmann 10y ago
this particular research doesn't answer your question - though a followup study could
bitL 10y ago
It probably helps with some markers deemed important in competitive sports like VO2 max and won't help with others that aren't measured. With HIIT you significantly increase the risk of injury and/or death comparing to moderate longer exercise. You should only do it when your body doesn't gain much benefit from moderate ones. Try the popular Tabata sprints just once to understand the stress you are putting your body through (20 seconds all out effort sprint followed by 10 seconds pause, repeat 8 times).
- saiya-jin 10y ago
  Wait a minute, the part about injury/death is a bit ridiculous. With this logic, stay sedentary, no risk of injury/death from training ever, that's for sure. And never ever go to the mountains or dive! I do HIIT, with running uphill on treadmill (1 min sprint, 2 mins slow pace, increase inclination, repeat), but it's only one type of running I do (others are slowly increasing speed and inclination every 5 mins, and just circles in hilly park nearby). It's very effective, 'different' type than others (heart rate takes very long to come down for example). Definitely I feel my knees more after usual running on concrete in proper shoes rather than these treadmill sprints. If you don't challenge your body and put some pressure on muscles/joints/ligaments/cardiovascular system etc. it will never reach its potential. Would I do this if 60 years old? No. But I don't consider such blank statements true. If you don't want to do HIIT for whatever reason, that's your choice
  - bitL 10y ago
    You are probably in a good enough shape to benefit from HIIT. For usual couch potatoes it might not be the case; it would benefit them more to start with swimming/walking, then later running a bit and once they are somewhat in shape and have proper injury-avoiding practices, they can do HIIT.

I had heard that even a brief bit of HIIT has all of the benefits of longer exercise times... Does this refute that or give evidence in support of that?

by th0ma5 10y ago

I had heard that even a brief bit of HIIT has all of the benefits of longer exercise times... Does this refute that or give evidence in support of that?

etrautmann 10y ago

this particular research doesn't answer your question - though a followup study could

bitL 10y ago

It probably helps with some markers deemed important in competitive sports like VO2 max and won't help with others that aren't measured. With HIIT you significantly increase the risk of injury and/or death comparing to moderate longer exercise. You should only do it when your body doesn't gain much benefit from moderate ones. Try the popular Tabata sprints just once to understand the stress you are putting your body through (20 seconds all out effort sprint followed by 10 seconds pause, repeat 8 times).

saiya-jin 10y ago
Wait a minute, the part about injury/death is a bit ridiculous. With this logic, stay sedentary, no risk of injury/death from training ever, that's for sure. And never ever go to the mountains or dive! I do HIIT, with running uphill on treadmill (1 min sprint, 2 mins slow pace, increase inclination, repeat), but it's only one type of running I do (others are slowly increasing speed and inclination every 5 mins, and just circles in hilly park nearby). It's very effective, 'different' type than others (heart rate takes very long to come down for example). Definitely I feel my knees more after usual running on concrete in proper shoes rather than these treadmill sprints. If you don't challenge your body and put some pressure on muscles/joints/ligaments/cardiovascular system etc. it will never reach its potential. Would I do this if 60 years old? No. But I don't consider such blank statements true. If you don't want to do HIIT for whatever reason, that's your choice
- bitL 10y ago
  You are probably in a good enough shape to benefit from HIIT. For usual couch potatoes it might not be the case; it would benefit them more to start with swimming/walking, then later running a bit and once they are somewhat in shape and have proper injury-avoiding practices, they can do HIIT.