When HIIT cardio first hit (lol) mainstream fitness, it was all about getting the same benefits of a long workout in half of the time. For example, the calories you’d burn in 1 hour of cardio could be burned in 25 minutes of a HIIT style workout.
This is all due to the afterburner that HIIT cardio creates. As you know, HIIT cardio is much more intense and more difficult for our bodies to complete. The intervals of maximum effort take so much out of our bodies that for up to 24 hours post-workout, our bodies are working extra hard to repay that oxygen debt.
BUT, as HIIT has become more and more common style of training, it’s somehow gotten away from it’s original claim of less time, same benefit. Don’t they say we are the generation of thinking more is better?!
I like to always remind myself that HIIT workouts don’t have to be 45 minutes to an hour long. It’s why I created this workout at just 20 minutes.
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