I just finished Stage 2 A2 today. On Monday, I did Stage 2 B1 and it took forever, so I didn't do the HIIT. I tacked it on the end of today's workout, since I could complete the A workout in much less time. Is there any magic to doing the HIIT on the B workout, or is it fine to do it with A? I only have about an hour in the gym, since I actually have to go to work afterward. (life is hard... LOL!)
One of my complaints about the program is it does require a lot of time in the gym. I started Stage 2 a few weeks ago and had to abandon it because I was spending 90 minutes at the gym, and I don't have the time for that. I started cutting some exercises out, or doing some at home (like the ball crunches) so I wouldn't be at the gym for so long.
Maybe I'll go back to the program during the winter when I have more time, but during the spring and summer, I do a lot of outdoor activities. Right now, I'm playing in softball, soccer and basketball leagues so I figure I'm getting plenty of exercise and when I do go to the gym, I use some of the exercises I learned from NROLFW and came up with my own program. We'll see how it goes.
The intervals in NR are not technically HIIT. The high intervals are prescribed to be a minute in length. True HII's are too intense to keep up for a minute. My understanding is that the intervals are to be high, but not a true max effort.
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Whether it is technically HIIT or not is sort of irrelevant, I think the original poster is just asking whether it's ok to do the cardio on a different workout day because of time constraints.
Anyway, I have wondered myself whether there is some magical combo of doing that interval cardio along with workout B, because I totally agree with you that B takes longer than A. They do say in the book that if you do cardio on your off days, you can do the interval training then. In other words, if I do workout B tonight but plan to go to the gym tomorrow too, I could just save the interval training for tomorrow, followed by some regular steady state cardio. I could be wrong, but I don't see a huge problem with doing it after workout A, or just fitting in whenever you can to make sure you get in a couple sessions per week. Good luck!
It really helps with the time if you do both exercises in the alternating sets without rest. So do B1, B2, rest, B1, B2, rest ...
How long do you rest for? I did the core workout this way, but will have less time this next round so I was hoping to condense the other sections as well. However, I couldn't decide how long an appropriate rest would be since the core workouts were so much easier than anything else in the program.
Also, I always did the intervals the next day because of time constraints. For the body weight matrix I did the same thing. I would go for a jog and then do the BWM when I finished.
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