Hows this? quick question

[Christina]

hello ladies and gentlemen..

I was just wondering, I go to the gym everyday.

I was doing cardio and weights everyday; both per workout.

Now, I'm doing cardio one day, weights the next, and so on. Just alternating.

For cardio days, I use the x-trainer and I start at 3.0 for 10 seconds, then 4.0+ for 20 seconds, 3.0 for 10, 4.0+ for 20... HIIT I think it's called. I also do 2+ miles on the bike (which is easy), maybe include some treadmill in there.

On my weights day, I alternate throughout the machines, and include situps.

How does this sound? :guns

[Richt]

It sounds absolutely perfect to me Christina. I hope you are enjoying it.

Its always a good idea to weight train one day and then let the muscles rest the following day.

[Christina]

thanks :hug

so it's good that I'm doing cardio one day and weights the next and alternating :yes

[2big4mysize]

what is important is you let the weight lifting muscles have a day off from weight lifting. If you want to lift every day you can but you need to break it up into upper and lower body days.

You need to legthen the intervals in your HIIT as it should be 1 min fast 1 min slow as you need to be maxed out and then recovered. if you are not in shape to last that long then you can work to build it up at a slower speed until you can do the full 60 seconds.

Good for you working out!

Happy low carbing.

[Emo_Boy]

what is important is you let the weight lifting muscles have a day off from weight lifting. If you want to lift every day you can but you need to break it up into upper and lower body days.

You need to legthen the intervals in your HIIT as it should be 1 min fast 1 min slow as you need to be maxed out and then recovered. if you are not in shape to last that long then you can work to build it up at a slower speed until you can do the full 60 seconds.

Good for you working out!

Happy low carbing.

EXACTLY what I was going to say. HIIT should look like this:

1 min hard - 1 min soft
1 min hard - 1 min soft
1 min hard - 2 min soft
1 min hard - 2 min soft
1 min hard - 1 min soft
1 min hard - 1 min soft

and so on .......

[loonatika]

Hey Christina,
The HIIT is lots of fun and you will be amazed how quickly you can up the progress on the 'hard' cycles. Remember, you want to be doing it so hard you are absolutely buggered at the end of each hard round

[Emo_Boy]

Hey Christina,
The HIIT is lots of fun and you will be amazed how quickly you can up the progress on the 'hard' cycles. Remember, you want to be doing it so hard you are absolutely buggered at the end of each hard round

Mmhmm ... and this is the one form of cardio (that like weight training) can burn calories AFTER you are done working out. Most straight through cardio can not do that.

[Christina]

thanks guys! I'll try that next time :hug