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It has very little to do with distance. I lose weight much faster with hiit than riding long distance.
by nightski 5y ago
It has very little to do with distance. I lose weight much faster with hiit than riding long distance.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y ago"much faster" is ambiguous here. Ride 150 miles a day every day for a week, don't over-eat, and you will lose much more weight than you ever could from HIIT. On the other hand, that's a lot of hours, and HIIT will easily win in terms of weight-loss per unit time.
- gameswithgo 5y agoPaul, you can lose all of your weight without working out at all!
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoYou don't know anything about my weight! :)) For sure. But the discussion going on here (and in TFA) is the balance between weight loss via exercise and weight loss via lower calorie consumption.
- nightski 5y agoHow is it ambiguous. You clearly understood I meant calories burned per unit time.
- fredophile 5y agoThe ambiguity is what unit of time you care about. With HIIT you lose more weight per minute of exercise you do. With a lot of LISS you can lose more weight per week than you could with HIIT.
- nightski 5y agoUnderstood, but the parent I responded to was talking about efficiency so I thought that was the context. In my experience I'm not so sure about that either. I can't repeat centuries day after day when I am out of shape and need to lose weight. If one can, it's very unlikely he/she needs to lose weight.