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High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
The word interval means a pause in time or a space between things. Interval training refers to those exercise routines that have pauses. When you do interval training you exercise, rest, exercise, rest. For instance you might jog for five minutes and then sit down for a while. Then you would jog again. That would be interval training. Interval training is good for people who are not physically able to continue to exercise for longer periods. Rather than exercise for a short time and then quit, interval training can allow you to recover a bit after exercise and then continue when you are rested. High intensity interval training (abbreviated HIIT) is a more advanced technique.In HIIT you exercise to your maximum for a short period. Then you slow down to allow yourself to recover. Then you exercise to the maximum again. Why is this helpful? Because if you exercise at a pace that is too slow you might not get much benefit from the exercise. And if you exercise at a pace that is too fast you will not be able to continue. Have you had trouble with exercise, where you put in your time and didn't see results? That is probably because the pace was too slow. If the pace is too slow it does not build lean tissue and it does not stimulate the metabolism. You see this all the time with people plodding on the treadmill. Look them up in a few months, if they haven't just given up by then. You won't find any difference. They will not have lost weight. They look just the same. And they just plod along. HIIT will break you out of a rut and rocket you off a plateau. It will kick your metabolism into high gear. And that will let you finally lose weight when you couldn't before.
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