Interval running treadmill or HIIT advice?
Help! I’m having trouble trying to figure out the most efficient cardio treadmill exercise to do and the frequency I should be doing it! Currently I’m rotating weight lifting and cardio days every other day. For Cardio I’ve been doing 20 minute interval runs. I either do a 6mph warm up, followed by increasing the speed every minute up to 9mph or 9.5 and then cutting back down to 6.0 and starting over again. I’ve also done an interval run where I start at 3.5, jump to 9.5, then fall down to 6.0-6.5, then start again at 3.5. Any suggestions for a good run? Or other alternatives for interval cardio.
Also, is it better to seperate my cardio into a 15min morning and a 15 min evening? Should I be doing cardio on my weight days too, if I’m trying to the healthiest/but fastest weight-loss muscle building?
Any advice would be really appreciated … or just examples of what you do!
July 12, 2008 at 2:07 pm
This is what I do, and its working very well for me as far as burning fat..ok, 30 minutes total…5 min at 6.0, 5 min at 6.5…walk for 2 minutes at 3.0…then 1 min at 10.3 (I strive to increase everytime), 1 min at 3.0…9 total intervals…I do 3 of these a week, then on Sat or Sun, I just do a 45 min jog…today it was at 6.3.
July 12, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Great questions. You should talk to my daughter, cause she knows a lot more about this stuff than I do. At my age, i do more lifting and less cardio. I have days where I am lifting at a rate that gets my cardio going and i jump rope at least one minute, and sometime two, between most all of my sets. I am trying to tone and not lose muscle.