Monday night sweat

in steemstem •  5 years ago  (edited)

Monday nights can often be the worst nights in the gym, the air is a mix of weekend regrets coupled with the start of the week blues. All in all, it's quite a grim picture. So on Mondays, I like to keep it simple with a brutal 20-30 High-Intensity Interval (HIIT) session to focus on fat loss. 


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A casual Monday night at the gym.


Time or effectiveness?

I think you can argue about the effectiveness of intervals vs steady-state cardio but I will pose a few points about why I personally favour them.

- Time: Be done in 20-30 mins

- Engaging: I struggle with longer cardio sessions often from a boredom point of view but I'm sure many others disagree with me here.

- Payoff: For my goals of cutting fat and maintaining muscle mass, I find these workouts ideal.


My workout - Treadmill sprints

5 min warm-up

Once sufficiently warmed up, I move onto the interval phase with each one consisting of the following.

- 1 min sprint ( I aim for speeds over 13km/h) on an incline (+5%)

- 2 min recovery phase (slower pace, 1-2% incline)

Repeat 5-10 times depending on fitness.


Finisher (optional)

Next, I move over to the sprint treadmill (not all gyms have them) and try 1-3 high resistance sprints for 15 sec each.


If you did everything correctly you should look like this:

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Enjoy,

Tom


References

HIIT training and fat loss

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991639/

Fat loss mechanisms of HIIT

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26238498

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