dimanche 24 février 2013

What Are The Injury Risks And Recommended Frequency of HIIT?

By Russ Hollywood


While many exercise lovers adopt HIIT into their workout plans, very few take the time to prepare for their sessions accordingly. There are a couple of risks involved in using this popular technique.

Many gym users are simply too impatient to take the time to learn the potential risks before they try anything new. This is why there are so many people using supplements such as creatine who have no idea what it actually does, they're simply taking it because everybody else does.

On the subject of high intensity interval training, many individuals do not realize the potentially big risks to their health if they get it wrong. []

While it's primarily seen as an excellent way to lose weight, high intensity interval training can also become a negative influence on your training if you fail to use it correctly. The two main areas we will be looking at here are as follows:

1) What is the recommended frequency for interval training?

2) Learn how to protect yourself against niggling injuries with one simple step.

Do not make the common gym mistake of presuming that more means better. In fact, your body needs adequate time to recover from each workout you perform and it is during these rest periods that your muscles grow bigger and stronger. If you choose to cut these rest periods out of your schedule and train every single day you run the risk of damaging your results rather than helping them.

With the interval method, the results do not happen when you are in the gym working out. They occur after you have left. Your body will continue to burn off calories, more specifically body fat, at almost 27% higher than the usual rate and this period lasts a mighty 14 hours. Some call it the afterburn effect, but to fitness professionals this is known as excess post-exercise oxygen consumption. If you go back to the gym before you have allowed time for this vital recovery period you hinder your own results, so keep your hit sessions at a maximum of three per week.

Injuries can occur during high intensity workouts, making this particular style of exercise a very dangerous thing to throw into your program if you don't take the time you research it beforehand. Usually this is due to lack of warm-up exercises.

A warm-up need only take five minutes and the benefits are clear. However, we live in an impatient world where folks want to get in and out of the gym as quickly as humanly possible and this sometimes means skipping the warm-up and cool-down sessions. Much like if you tried using whey protein or creatine supplements without researching them first. this only comes back to haunt you and your hiit sessions will suffer as a result.




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