How are you feeling this Tuesday?
Now back to my old friend HIIT.
It's been a while since I did a quick HIIT run. My past few months have been spent either lifting or doing longer half marathon training runs. Today I just wanted to get out there and kick some calorie butt...so I did.
Not only did I burn around 200 calories in my 2 mile run, but because they were high intensity intervals I will continue to burn calories at a higher rate for at least the next 24 hours. Yup - just the benefit of a raised EPOC (exercise post oxygen consumption).
Studies have shown that high-intensity interval training is more effective in the long-run over steady-state cardio. There was also a big article in the ACE Fitness journal this month about the same topic.
I have a beginner's HIIT post you can check out here.
Would you like to give some calories the burn treatment? Try this one out:
Also because I'm a planner and I think planning and preparation are the key to healthy living success, here's a look at our "In & Out" planning for the week too:
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What meal are you excited to eat this week?
I can never get tired of turkey blue cheese meatballs. Nom. Nom. Nom.
Love and furballs,
Carissa & Kyle
i keep telling myself I am going to plan meals, but every time I do I just never follow it! I suppose if I were having trouble meeting my veggie/fruit in take I'd worry more...but I do need to better plan my protein!
ReplyDeleteI find that planning keeps me focused and avoids unhealthy "impulse" eats.
DeleteYou might not need as much protein as you think. For most adults it's 0.8g per kg of body-weight. That's just 47g a day for me (based on 130lbs)!! I eat more, because I work out but that is an easy number to eat. That's only 189 calories of protein!!!!
Hey Amanda - same thing used to happen to me. What I find helps is flexible planning. Meaning, I have a plan of 6 meals a day. I know what I need in terms of how much protein, carbs, sugar, fats at each meal, I make sure I have those things easy and they are easy to prepare on hand, and then just put it all together in my lunch bag the night before or the morning of. So I will very often use a protein from dinner in my lunch the next day, along with yogurt (easy to pack), hard boiled eggs (easy to prep and go), etc. That way, when it gets to Wednesday, I don't have to eat what I thought I wanted Sunday night and I don't feel like I didn't stick to a plan.
DeleteI'm still juice fasting so no 'meals' just juice :)
ReplyDeleteI really need to add some intervals to my running! (It automatically happens in spin class.) Thanks for the great idea!
ReplyDeleteI am just excited to eat haha. Detox ends tomorrow but I made me meal schedule on sunday. I am super excited about being able to have fish on friday though lol the little things
ReplyDeleteI'm excited for chili for dinner tonight! Although its going to be in the 60s so not really chili weather. Still yummy though. And I can't wait to tackle a new PDR this weekend with my 14 mile run. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat interval workout. Pinned and tweeted. :)
just found your blog through sweat it out saturday :D i love HIIT and thought I would pop over and say hi ;) what a great blog you have :) xo
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