AllisonBell
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So what is HIIT Cardio?
HIIT cardio is merely doing sets with your legs like it’s weights, but its actually cardio. You perform a all out 100% effort on cardio equipment for 30 seconds (the maximum amount of time you can run on ATP and Creatine Phosphate) then active rest for 60 seconds (the exact amount of time for maximal growth hormone release, the primary fat burning, muscle sparing, hormone).
One 30 second pairing of balls out work and 60 second active rest is 1 interval. A session is 10-20 intervals so about 15-30 minutes.
What is EPOC?
Excessive Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption or EPOC is the amount of extra oxygen you inhale after HARD workout sessions. By Hard I mean NOT STEADY STATE CARDIO. EPOC does NOT occur from traditional steady state cardio. At least not a significant amount.
EPOC is a measurement that indirectly tells us that fat is being oxidized to replace lost ATP and phosphorolate creatine. Its super complicated and super easy at the same time.
So whats the difference and why should you do any of it?
HIIT or High Intensity interval training is the perfect combination of everything. It is intense enough to remodel your cardiovascular system unlike normal fat loss aerobic “cardio”. Cardio means hearty after all and in order to make your heart stronger and incidentally make yourself harder to kill you need to do exercise at 80% of your maximum heart rate. Like weights. But With traditional cardio its the same speed for over 30 minutes. Most peole cant do this at 80% of their maximum heart rate.
The fat burning zone these fitness imbeciles endorse is the belief that you burn more fat at 45-65% of your maximum heart rate and that if your cardio or weight training puts you higher than this level of intensity your burn LESS fat. This is stupid and wrong. The misconception is from the fact that the lower the heart rate the higher the PERCENTAGE of calories burned are from fat. Not the total amount of calories or the total amount of fat! Additionally it doesn’t really matter for most people trying to lose weight, fat loss occurs when the total calories burned for the day are greater than those consumed of course. Macros have nothing to do with it in almost all cases.
Additionally since EPOC occurs with intense training there is NO EPOC WITH AEROBIC STEADY STATE CARDIO. As soon as you step off the machine the fat loss is pretty much over. With intense training like weights and HIIT you have the EPOC Effect, so there is more fat burned for the next 48 hours.
There are many more points about why HIIT is a great way to do cardio on top of some days that you do a steady pace workout.
If you want to read the exact article on the difference between both ways of doing cardio please see the URL below, you will not be disappointed.
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HIIT cardio is merely doing sets with your legs like it’s weights, but its actually cardio. You perform a all out 100% effort on cardio equipment for 30 seconds (the maximum amount of time you can run on ATP and Creatine Phosphate) then active rest for 60 seconds (the exact amount of time for maximal growth hormone release, the primary fat burning, muscle sparing, hormone).
One 30 second pairing of balls out work and 60 second active rest is 1 interval. A session is 10-20 intervals so about 15-30 minutes.
What is EPOC?
Excessive Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption or EPOC is the amount of extra oxygen you inhale after HARD workout sessions. By Hard I mean NOT STEADY STATE CARDIO. EPOC does NOT occur from traditional steady state cardio. At least not a significant amount.
EPOC is a measurement that indirectly tells us that fat is being oxidized to replace lost ATP and phosphorolate creatine. Its super complicated and super easy at the same time.
So whats the difference and why should you do any of it?
HIIT or High Intensity interval training is the perfect combination of everything. It is intense enough to remodel your cardiovascular system unlike normal fat loss aerobic “cardio”. Cardio means hearty after all and in order to make your heart stronger and incidentally make yourself harder to kill you need to do exercise at 80% of your maximum heart rate. Like weights. But With traditional cardio its the same speed for over 30 minutes. Most peole cant do this at 80% of their maximum heart rate.
The fat burning zone these fitness imbeciles endorse is the belief that you burn more fat at 45-65% of your maximum heart rate and that if your cardio or weight training puts you higher than this level of intensity your burn LESS fat. This is stupid and wrong. The misconception is from the fact that the lower the heart rate the higher the PERCENTAGE of calories burned are from fat. Not the total amount of calories or the total amount of fat! Additionally it doesn’t really matter for most people trying to lose weight, fat loss occurs when the total calories burned for the day are greater than those consumed of course. Macros have nothing to do with it in almost all cases.
Additionally since EPOC occurs with intense training there is NO EPOC WITH AEROBIC STEADY STATE CARDIO. As soon as you step off the machine the fat loss is pretty much over. With intense training like weights and HIIT you have the EPOC Effect, so there is more fat burned for the next 48 hours.
There are many more points about why HIIT is a great way to do cardio on top of some days that you do a steady pace workout.
If you want to read the exact article on the difference between both ways of doing cardio please see the URL below, you will not be disappointed.
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