HIIT: what do you do?

[InterpreterJess]

I usually use the elliptical. For the high intensity minutes I up the resistance to 11 or 12 and speed up. For low intensity I drop the resistance wayyy back and slow down.

[Kimble]

What are mountain climbers and hammer punch jumps?

[foodfromafar]

OK, so when I get to HIIT, I'm gonna have to check out the stair thingie at the gym. You all make it sound so horribly good for you...

[jvernacchio]

Originally Posted by foodfromafar

OK, so when I get to HIIT, I'm gonna have to check out the stair thingie at the gym. You all make it sound so horribly good for you...

The trick is not holding on to the hand rails.

[Nikster]

Originally Posted by sharsell119

I call them the stairs of death, and I did mine this morning. Cycled between 3 and 14 and everywhere in between. Stupid thing said I only burned 300 calories, but I don't buy that for a second. I was on there for 30 minutes huffing and puffing like a big dog.

Funny! Because I overheard a trainer telling his client today that she should do the step-mill.....it will be harder than the others (treadmill, precor, elliptical, bikes, etc...) but that it will show her she burns less calories. Hmm, wonder what is up with that?

[baffled111]

The calorie counts on all those machines are wildly exaggerated. You can assume that the newer and fancier the machine, the more exaggerated will be the calorie counts. I wear a heart rate monitor and the readings on the elliptical will usually be hundreds of calories higher than what my HRM reports. It's a sneaky business.

[Phaedrus49er]

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