Thread: Ideas on HIIT
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Old 02-15-2008, 01:32 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Phaedrus49er View Post
I dunno. I've always done HIIT without an HRM and have gotten great results, but then, I use good programming and listen to my body instead of watching arbitrary number blinking on my wrist
How fast does it take you to get to max or near max HR? Will that time it takes for you to hit max HR play in account of you calling it HIIT or just IT?

Like:
If it takes you 20sec to hit maximum HR, is that still HIIT? or should it be a quicker reaction ....say less than 5 sec?
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