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17/5/2015

Always try and squeeze in a HIIT session

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At any given opportunity, try and squeeze in a HIIT session, there are so many benefits including:
  • Building overall fitness
  • Improving blood pressure
  • Increase your own lung capacity
  • Building endurance and grit ;)
An article by American College of Sports Medicine gives some great insight to HIIT, it is important to stay safe and not just go straight into it. Seek medical advice if you are concerned about any aspect of HIIT and your overall health.
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My biggest struggle are hill climbs, starting on a 15% incline at 12.5km and reducing every minute (I could not do the full 3 minutes, and this is something I building up too). Your lungs burn, your oxygen levels start to deplete and your legs start to get really heavy, and for some weird reason 1minute is a really really really long time.  You are trying to think of anything else but that full minute, including breathing.
Shuttles runs seem easier compared to the incline climbs, although still taxing, there seems to be more opportunity to have  a chance to breath... So a few shuttle sprints were included, bear crawls, hangs, tyre flips with two burpees.
This mornings sessions also included shuttle sprints (and with a lot of comparisons, I still need to work on my turns - this is what is slowing me down, rather than a graceful turn, I stomp to the line and then turn, which really isnt that graceful).
The session was set out as follows:
1 x 2 minute
1 x 1 min 30 sec
1 x 1 minute
  • Ski Erg
  • Rower
  • Sled runs
  • Fast feet on tyre
  • Star jumps

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