HIIT (stands for High Intensity Interval Training) is all the rage these days it seems.

It’s a cardiovascular workout that uses cycles of high intensity exercise interspersed with intervals of lower intensity recovery.

And for great reason! It’s a fat-blasting, performance-enhancing workout (research linked below) you can do in a short amount of time.

Thing is, a lot of people are doing it wrong.

See, if your HIIT sessions are lasting for more than 20-30 minutes, you’re probably not performing them properly.

Because HIIT cardio requires an all out maximum effort. And the lucrative component to HIIT is that you can do less cardio while getting more results from your workouts.

But chances are, if you’re performing your cardio exercise for more than 20-30 minutes, you’re not going “all out” to the point of reaping the rewards from this type of training.

Really, it’s more of a glorified form of “long slow distance” cardio if you do it this way.

One more mistake seen far too often with HIIT, is people taking too little of breaks in between intervals.

The purpose of interval training is to spike your heart rate, to accelerate fat loss, increase growth hormone release, and alter your metabolism.

However, taking small breaks (10-30 seconds) in between each sprint isn’t altering your heart rate enough.

You see a lot of this is “Tabata” style workouts. They will go intense for 20 seconds and rest 10. Although your heart rate remains high, it doesn’t promote the benefits of true interval training. It’s more like a High Intensity Steady State cardio. Which there’s little research to support.

So what’s the RIGHT way to do HIIT?

It’s outlined in detail for you on the page below:

=> Anabolic Running 2.0

To your success!

– Forest Vance
ForestVance.com

PS – Check out the research on HIIT mentioned in today’s article here => http://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/pages/articleviewer.aspx?year=1996&issue=10000&article=00018&type=abstract