If you are new around here, then an energetic welcome to you. And to catch you up to speed quickly, HIIT stands for High-Intensity Interval Training. HIIT is a training technique where you give an all-out effort through quick, intense bursts of exercise, followed by short recovery periods. Sometimes the recovery periods last the same amount of time as the quick bursts and sometimes they are shorter in time.
This type of training gets and keeps your heart rate up and burns more fat in less time.
HIIT is a great choice for a workout:
- Quick, intense bursts from a HIIT exercise burns more calories than a typical workout, and in less time.
- HIIT is a great workout if you are a pinch for time. A typical HIIT workout is 30 minutes or less, most averaging around 20 minutes.
- HIIT is the most effective way to stimulate the EPOC (Excess Postexercise Oxygen Consumption) effect –
- EPOC is the amount of oxygen required to restore your body to its normal, resting level of metabolic function, otherwise known as homeostasis. Your metabolic function is dependent on your metabolism, which is how your body converts the nutrients you consume in your diet to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the fuel your body uses for muscular activity.
- EPOC is how your body continues to burn calories long after you’ve finished your workout.
- EPOC is all about the intensity, not the duration.
- Exercise that consumes more oxygen burns more calories, which we have learned happens in HIIT exercises.
- You feel the workout immediately, which especially for beginners, is very rewarding and will motivate you to stick with it!
A treadmill is a great option for HIIT because:
- it is just you and the treadmill, nothing fancy required
- every gym has a treadmill (or at least they should)
- any fitness level can do it
- it takes just moment if not, just a few seconds to go from an all-out max effort to your recovery
HIIT Treadmill Workouts are great because:
- Treadmills have many settings to increase and decrease intensity: options such as inclines, speeds, and timing can be customized so the workout is perfect for your preferences and style.
- No preparation is needed! Just hop on a treadmill and get started.
- Treadmills can offer efficient and speedy workouts that work hand-in-hand with HIIT.
- Settings can be saved on most treadmills.
- Some treadmills have pre-existing settings that can harness the power of HIIT workouts. The ultimate workout that requires no thinking or planning ahead of time.
After everything you have just read, I think it is time to do a little treadmill HIIT workout ourselves. Here is what we will be doing. Why don’t you try it out for yourself too and let us know what you think! Just you, a treadmill, challenging your body, and you are done in under 20 minutes. BOOM!
EBOOST TREADMILL HIIT WORKOUT
When performing this HIIT workout on a treadmill, you will have to experiment first with which speed and incline are challenging for you. If you are a beginner you may want to start at 5mpg with zero incline, if you are advanced then 10mph with some incline will be your challenge.
Warm-up for 5 minutes at 2mph lower than your HIIT workout speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ zero incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ 2% incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ 4% incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ 6% incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ 8% incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ 10% incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ 8% incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ 6% incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ 4% incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ 2% incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
30 seconds at your challenging but not max speed @ zero incline
30 seconds at your warm-up speed
Cool down
Total HIIT 11 minutes
