Description
High Intensity Interval Training - Training with high intensity intervals. Combine moderate- or low-intensity movement sessions with high-intensity intervals to get your heart rate up and then back down again.
This speeds up the metabolism. The body enters a catabolic state, where muscle generates more energy, and fat burning will increase. Some benefits:
• There is a favorable increase in muscle mass (with proper nutrition) and loss of fat.
• Increases glucose consumption and improves insulin sensitivity.
• Ideal training for people who have little time.
Before practicing it you must take into account:
• It is not recommended if you have not practiced any type of exercise before.
• Since HIIT workouts are hard to do if you don't have an exercise habit.
• Risk of injury. Because they are fast, high-intensity exercises, it can be difficult to know if you're doing it the right way, therefore, there is a greater chance of injury. For this reason, it is recommended that you do exercises that you master.
• It is not effective in reducing stress.
A form of exercises that you can combine would be: Jumping jacks, squats, pushups, planks, chair triceps, running in place, burpees combined in intervals of 8 or 10 intervals.
First and foremost, warm-up and stretching for 5-10 minutes. Between each interval: There should be a 15 second high intensity effort phase. Another phase that would be recovery between 45 seconds of effort of moderate intensity.
For a total of 8 or 10 intervals that are around a total duration of around 20 minutes depending on your physical capacity and how you evolve.