The Truth About Exercise

Skip for 5 minutes or more (up to 20 - I have tended to use 4 groups of 5 minutes with a break, in the past), 5 days a week and use your weights on a 3 day split - monday, wednesday, friday.
Dunno if that's compatible with the program or whatever, not got round to watching it yet. :o
 
compare it to your car on a 5 mile journey, a steady pace in 5th is far more efficient than booting it/letting off/booting it/letting off in 3rd and 4th, so use the latter when excercising.
 
Having not watched the video yet, I'm guessing this is stating that 3 minutes of HIIT is worth as much or better than half an hour/hour of equivalent, low intensity workout?
 
Gackt said:
Having not watched the video yet, I'm guessing this is stating that 3 minutes of HIIT is worth as much or better than half an hour/hour of equivalent, low intensity workout?
Click to expand...

To certain extents yes, although there is a tonne of other info in there too. It covers quite a lot actually, just finished watching it.
 
-Ad- said:
Tabata on an Ergo.

Learn and do it properly.

Bask in the weirdness and awesomness of the feeling of death after only a 4 min workout.
Click to expand...

Tabata is pretty savage when done properly, ie every exertion flat out, leaving nothing in the tank.

I also did 200m (as fast as possible), 30 secs rest x 8 for a while.....that wasn't pleasant. Usually involved rolling/collapsing off the rower :D
 
Just watched and whilst it was quite interesting I'm a bit disappointed that he seemed to be messing about increasing his activity doing that NEAT stuff when he should really have just been doing the HIIT stuff for a more accurate result.

It might not have been much but we seen how much difference a 90 minute walk made to the fat in his blood.
 
Jambo said:
Just watched and whilst it was quite interesting I'm a bit disappointed that he seemed to be messing about increasing his activity doing that NEAT stuff when he should really have just been doing the HIIT stuff for a more accurate result.

It might not have been much but we seen how much difference a 90 minute walk made to the fat in his blood.
Click to expand...

I'm almost certain the HIIT sequence was filmed entirely prior or following the NEAT sequence.
 
This HIT and NEAT programs sound awesome, but like the guy said, your exercise routines need to be tailored to the individual. I personally like to do a 1 hour session at the gym and increase my muscle mass.
 
Jimz said:
Cant wait to get home and watch this, I always knew that doing short sprints really fast in a short period of time has ALWAYS been better for you than just running for hours on a treatmill.

Im glad this stuff is finally being exposed.
Click to expand...

Better at what?

People keep confusing the issue by insisting one is better than another without stating what for.

Few people run for hours on end anyway and there are downsides to suggesting only 3 minutes of training a few times a week. Your body will still adapt to 3 minutes of the same level of training, it will likely take longer than it would take to adapt to 30 minutes of far less intensive training, so what.

It's fairly unhealthy to live the way we do, hours behind desks and telling kids/encouraging people to only do 3 minutes exercise a day seems a step in the wrong direction. The actual physical benefit might be as good as longer less intensive exercise, what about the mental effect, what about routine. In general we were designed to move quite a bit, I'd prefer my kid(if I have one) gets used to a decent amount of activity every day to become used to being an active person. So if they end up in a desk job like most people they will still feel the want/need to get up and move about for a decent amount of time, to be outside, moving, light or heavy exercise.

HIT is about efficiency in time training, nothing more or less, since when was it difficult to work out working harder is better.

What are the mental effects as said, levels of endorphins from exercising 3 minutes a day instead of 30, are people happier and healthier people(not fitter) from walking 30 minutes every day, or from doing some HIT 3 minutes a day.


There is far more to life than JUST fitness and how quickly you can gain it. If your only goal is fitness and you can't work out that HIT is good all on your own, you've got bigger problems.
 
Just finished watching the docu, fascinating stuff.

However, it's all good and well saying HIT is dappa, but if I were to start doing it tomorrow, how am I going to know if it's working for me without expensive tests at university laboratories...? Perhaps i'm a non-responder too and i'll be wasting time.
 
DcD said:
Just finished watching the docu, fascinating stuff.

However, it's all good and well saying HIT is dappa, but if I were to start doing it tomorrow, how am I going to know if it's working for me without expensive tests at university laboratories...? Perhaps i'm a non-responder too and i'll be wasting time.
Click to expand...

Improvements in your stamina, speed, recovery time etc....
 
Last edited:
DcD said:
Just finished watching the docu, fascinating stuff.

However, it's all good and well saying HIT is dappa, but if I were to start doing it tomorrow, how am I going to know if it's working for me without expensive tests at university laboratories...? Perhaps i'm a non-responder too and i'll be wasting time.
Click to expand...


Expensive... :confused: I think Aber charge £20 for a VO2 max test and if you asked they'd probably test you're anaerobic power and capacity, time to exhaustion / fatigue for little more as well.

You could probably get in touch with a decent physio and they'd be able to do everything as well.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom