More than 10 years ago I did HIIT for running. After warm up (20 km walk to the running path) I started with walking 2-3 minutes and then running as fast as I could for 30 seconds. The first times felt like I would die. It was hard to breathe, and a lot of pollen in the air did not help.
The walk and run is 1 cycle. When beginning the training, the cycles start at a low number of repetitions (1-2). The repetitions increase every time when training. So if on Monday I did 4 cycles on Wednesday I would do 5.
I started all this at the beginning of my summer vacation and after my vacation I could run 10 km without a lot of effort (when starting I could not really do even 3 km on one go). It just felt good to run. Then work started to get busy again with other people coming back from their vacations, winter came and all that which made it harder to train and to find time for it, that broke the training rhythm and I stopped.
But I was surprised at how well HIIT worked.
After some time of doing HIIT and improving, I stopped with adding repetitions and just ran in a sane pace, since it felt nice.
More than 10 years ago I did HIIT for running. After warm up (20 km walk to the running path) I started with walking 2-3 minutes and then running as fast as I could for 30 seconds. The first times felt like I would die. It was hard to breathe, and a lot of pollen in the air did not help.
The walk and run is 1 cycle. When beginning the training, the cycles start at a low number of repetitions (1-2). The repetitions increase every time when training. So if on Monday I did 4 cycles on Wednesday I would do 5.
I started all this at the beginning of my summer vacation and after my vacation I could run 10 km without a lot of effort (when starting I could not really do even 3 km on one go). It just felt good to run. Then work started to get busy again with other people coming back from their vacations, winter came and all that which made it harder to train and to find time for it, that broke the training rhythm and I stopped.
But I was surprised at how well HIIT worked.
After some time of doing HIIT and improving, I stopped with adding repetitions and just ran in a sane pace, since it felt nice.