Having examined threshold training in Part 3, I want to move up to the next level of training and look at interval training, sometimes called High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Now, I’v written about this on this website rather extensively. The context was a little bit different, more addressing the rather asinine either/or between steady state and HIIT that had developed in the fitness industry.
Here I want to focus on HIIT more as an endurance training method although I’ll touch on other topics as well. HIIT actually encompasses several different “Types” of training itself (really, more applications of HIIT for different goals) and is a bit more complex to discuss than the other methods so far. For that reason, I want to focus on some general concepts here and discuss specifics in Interval Training Part 2.
Defining Interval Training/HIIT
In its most general form, interval training refers to a type of training that alternates period of higher intensity activity with periods of lower intensity training. … Keep Reading