Home HIIT session on 'Trust me, I'm a Doctor'.

[Sandraj39]

With thanks to davelinks who posted about last nights programme, I was really interested in the exercise comparison study they did. This High Intensity Interval Training programme was carried out at home by volunteers (no equipment needed) and resulted in a 12% improvement in VO2 max levels after just 4 weeks. As always, take medical advice where needed, but I think I might give it a go as part of my cross training! Only takes about 10 mins. Hope the link works.🙂

bbc.co.uk/programmes/articl...

[ju-ju- Graduate]

It was a really good programme wasn't it???

[Sandraj39 Graduate in reply to ju-ju-]

It was! Will definately check it out next week too,🙂

[givman]

Hey Sandra

Interval training really does improve your fitness

Been doing it recently and here's a killer session for you to try

10 min warm up run

Then 2 mins hard with a 1 min jog recovery six times

Then 5 min warm down jog

Graxx

[Sandraj39 Graduate]

The research definately backs up the efficacy of it. That session really does sound tough - don't think I could sustain running 'hard' for 2 minutes! Will keep it in mind for 'the future' though!!😬

[Theziggy Graduate]

The Home HIIT exercises and the results from the programme can be found here - tinyurl.com/gvgjbjr

I like the sound of the interval training though - just lack the motivation for doing it on my own at the moment

[misswobble Graduate]

I do Jillian Michaels DVD at home, on my own, sort of kick my own ass! I love them and they get you pouring with sweat but only for short periods and involving all your body parts.

Get jiggy Ziggy!

[RunaroundSue]

I read the article about this and have yet to watch the programme. But I did pop into Decathlon to buy a couple of hand grip exercisers. The 15 kg ones, two for£3.95. I couldn't even move the 50kg ones!

Apparently they should also help me with my guitar playing

[Sandraj39 Graduate in reply to RunaroundSue]

Hard to believe, but these hand grip exercises do actually lower blood pressure when used regularly!

[Frank-ntj]

I thought it was good program, and will give these exercises a go! I've watch the video and don't know whether I will be able to do the mountain climber but we'll see! Have a nice weekend Sandra! 😎

[Sandraj39 Graduate in reply to Frank-ntj]

Yep, totally agree about the mountain climber Frank! That young girl was powering through them but they look really tough! Enjoy the rest of your w/e too!🙂

[runningnearbeirut Graduate in reply to Sandraj39]

We did the stair climbing at the abs class I went to for a few months and it's a killer! I think we did 30 seconds and I didn't know the name of this evil little exercise...

Just managed to watch the video part of this (internet so bad earlier that it even told me I had insufficient bandwidth to play it!). I'm going to give it a go as I think it'll go well with running (realistically twice a week) and the abs exercises I'm carrying on with.

Tell you something though ... I'm going to be using the old C25K strategy of building up slowly. If I can only do bursts of 10 seconds to start with before resting for 90, it's a starting point, isn't it!

I'm just a bit confused because they said 5 sets of exercises on the page then only listed 4 in the video: star jumps, mountain climbing, high knees, star jumps. Was another one repeated?

[Indizulu Graduate in reply to runningnearbeirut]

Yes love your strategy - tried it yesterday and oh my gosh realised that despite fin C25k and thinking I was doing so well my fitness is still so poor!! Every 60 seconds seemed to go on forever!! Could barely manage 30 secs of the evil mountain climbers and the high steps.., and was confused too about the 5 sets??? good luck to you - will try again next week 👍🏽

[runningnearbeirut Graduate in reply to Indizulu]

Hopefully someone will be able to enlighten us on the 5 sets.

Am seriously going to start with 10-15 seconds of each in my 1st session and work my way up!