Of the 2 - 3
moderate intensity cardio only days, you can modify so that one is HIIT.
Not exact matches
Muscle wastage occurs when performing a lot of long duration
cardio, so instead try 2 - 3 short, high
intensity sessions and
only add longer, more
moderate sessions as a last resort.
Tabata training is a type of high
intensity interval training that supposedly can give you results similar to a 30 - to 60 - minute,
moderate cardio routine in
only 4 minutes.
The study's control group who
only performed
moderate intensity (65 - 80 % VO2 Max)
cardio for 3 times a week lost 71.8 % more weight during their 4 month long study than the group who
only performed 3 times a week of resistance training that consisted of 3 sets of 8 exercises with a repetition range of 8 - 12.
I have been trying to incorporate a higher
intensity (
moderate, I usually
only do low)
cardio into my workouts and I'm fine on the epileptical and the bike but when it comes to running / jogging on the treadmill I find I can
only go for a few minutes.
For example, researchers at the University of New South Wales found that young women who engaged in high
intensity cardio workouts for 15 weeks improved their insulin sensitivity by 31 % while women who engaged in an equal amount of
moderate exercise
only saw a 9 % improvement in insulin sensitivity over the 15 week trial!
While steady - state (low to
moderate) forms of
cardio can and should be performed for extended periods of time to see maintenance and improvements in VO2max (think upwards of 45 minutes at a jog), HIIT training for
cardio fitness involves working at an
intensity that can
only be maintained for about 20 to 25 minutes.