7 minute HIIT routine posted by the NY Times
 

Not sure how many people saw this, but the NY Times published it earlier this week:

The Scientific 7 Minute Workout

I don't regularly do Tabata intervals, but I've tried them before and they kick your butt! I decided to try the NY Times workout this morning, just to shake things up and because my time was short. It was a good, active 7 minutes, but in retrospect I should have been pushing myself harder. I'm no fitness model, but I'm pretty fit at this point, so I needed to up the intensity more than I was planning.

Anyone do a routine like this regularly?

Thanks for posting that link... I'll have to look for it the Magazine section later and rip it out and put it on my fridge... and then maybe I'll do that workout once in awhile before I just mindlessly reach for whatever instead... ;)

I saw this on the news last night. I love the concept but it never works with my body! For whatever reason, my body needs time-measured exercise vs. high-intensity as far as my weightloss is concerned. I wish I could work twice as hard in half the time!

I'm a big fan now of people just being more "active" in general... So hopefully, when people see something like this they just use it as a way to get in some more "activity" into their day... Because from what I've been hearing lately that really can make a difference... My new thing is just trying to add more and more "activity" to my day on top of my actual "exercise" time... Which for me really is a new way thinking... So I could see myself doing something like this as a way to take a break from the computer during the course of the day...I think that would be a good way to use a routine like this... Since in the past I alway thought if you weren't doing at least 30 to 60 minutes of exercise at a time there was no point... but thankfully that's turning out to not to be the case...

ive found that doing a version of HIIT on the treadmill has really helped on my legs and butt, with a little in the waist area....I do high intensity sprints, as fast as I can go without falling off the treadmill, alternated with short periods of walking...for me, it works really well