Is anyone up for a HIIT Challenge? I have been reading about it a lot lately and have decided to try it to see if I can up my time even more for 5K's. Plus I have heard it is great for overall toning and fitness. Here is the one I am going to follow:

http://musclemedia.com/training/hiit_table.asp

I thought it would be fun to do it with some other people. You can run, walk, bike, do the elliptical or whatever you do for high impact exercise. I will be running and did Day One of Week One today. It wasn't too bad. I already did my 3 mile run earlier today so just had this as a bonus. Let me know if any of you are interested and we can keep track right here in this thread of our progress throughout the 8 weeks. Here is my start:

Day One-Week One-Jog/Sprint-4 Minutes Total of 30 Second Intervals

I'm up for a little HITT. Good idea.

I will start today.

I did a couple intervals today but not like this. I will try this tomorrow.

Hey CAT and cheekie!! How did you two do on trying to get some HITT in? I almost forgot to do the second one this week that I was planning for today. Here is what I did:

Day Two-Week One-Jog/Sprint-4 Minutes Total of 30 Second Intervals

I did this time on the treadmill as it was already pretty late and I didn't want to go outside anymore. It was pretty different doing it on there as I had to judge what I could sprint and had to adjust down as I turned it up too fast to do the sprint at first. I am thinking I need to do it outside from now on as I felt out of control during the sprint part of it on there and thought I might get hurt.

Anybody else care to join us? I would love to have some more people to do it with!!

OK- I did Week 1 work-out 1

I did it on the treadmill. The sprint I did at 8 mile pace and the jog I did at 12 mile pace. It was hard to adjust the pace back and forth. Also I think I might not be sprinting fast enough so think I will go to 7:30 for the sprint part.

Yes- I also worried about getting hurt on the treadmill.....

Today I did work-out 2 of week 1.
I'm not sure if you are not supposed to do it on consecutive days.

I don't think I am sprinting fast enough because my heart rate doesn't get up very high (I wear a heart rate monitor.) I think I am going to try increasing the speed of my sprint.

Great job on completing the second one cheekie!! I think it is fine to do two days in a row as long as you take a break now. I plan on doing Monday, Wednesday and Friday for the 8 weeks. Here is what I did today:

Day Three-Week One-Jog/Sprint-5 Minutes Total of 30 Second Intervals

Wow!! Today I really feel like I am getting faster with running. My endurance seems to be picking up quite well too. I ran my normal 3 miles this morning and they seemed to go much better than usual. I think this may be the ticket!! Hope to see more joining us!

Day 3- Week One- Done (I need to synch up and catch up to Week 2)
I will start Week 2 tomorrow.

Can you give me more information on how you do a HIIT workout? I looked at the chart but I don't think I understand...I see the table for a 30 second jog followed by a 30 second sprint...but for how long? It only shows 4 minutes.

Just wondering, how fast are you able to sprint? I've never tried sprinting. My fastest running pace is only about an 8 minute mile, and I can't even keep that up for very long.

yes- the first 2 days the HIIT workout is only 4 minutes each workout: 4 30-sec jogs and 4-30 sec sprints.
It increases. The 3rd workout is 5 minutes and it keeps progressing per the chart.

Use an 8 minute pace as your sprint pace....or since it is only 30 seconds try to go a little faster.

Ohhh!!!!! I get it. God I am dumb sometimes. I saw the "4 minute cycle" and thought that was for those who were cycling (as in riding bikes?) so I sorta ignored it.

Big duh! Thanks!

OK - and next dumb question - how often? Every day, or 3x/wk?

well- you could do a HIIT workout on the bike or the eliptical or swimming or running.....anything you can do a sprint in

There are 3 workouts per week per the chart

Thanks....I prefer running....I'm going try this in the middle of my run tomorrow!