Hi guys, been trolling but this is my first actual post here.
I was curious about HIIT since I read about it recently in Men's Health and people seem to favor it here for fat loss.
To this point I have been doing FBW 3x a week to meet my goal of muscle gain. Well I'm about 5 months in and I've gained a significant amount of muscle (went from 164 to 174, must be newbie gains). I feel like I have met my goal as far as that goes.
My next goal is to lower my BF%, and it seems like HIIT is the way to go. The only problem is I have never done it before and I've never been a cardio champ.
Now I have a couple questions:
- I don't really prefer to do treadmill/bike, I have been doing stairmaster lately and I think that fits me best. I have heard it is possible to incorporate HIIT into any machine workout, is that true?
-Also, when I use the machine preset workout for "fat burner" it puts it on a scaling intensity that looks something like this: 1 - 3 - 5 - 7- 9 - 7- 5 - 3 - 1
But from what I understand about HIIT its more like: 1 - 9 - 1 - 9 - 1 - 9.
What is the difference in how these intensities effect fat loss?
-My final question is: I want to continue doing FBW workouts M and F to retain my muscle and do my HIIT on wednesday. Is this a feasable schedule to lower my BF%, assuming I keep a good diet?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I was curious about HIIT since I read about it recently in Men's Health and people seem to favor it here for fat loss.
To this point I have been doing FBW 3x a week to meet my goal of muscle gain. Well I'm about 5 months in and I've gained a significant amount of muscle (went from 164 to 174, must be newbie gains). I feel like I have met my goal as far as that goes.
My next goal is to lower my BF%, and it seems like HIIT is the way to go. The only problem is I have never done it before and I've never been a cardio champ.
Now I have a couple questions:
- I don't really prefer to do treadmill/bike, I have been doing stairmaster lately and I think that fits me best. I have heard it is possible to incorporate HIIT into any machine workout, is that true?
-Also, when I use the machine preset workout for "fat burner" it puts it on a scaling intensity that looks something like this: 1 - 3 - 5 - 7- 9 - 7- 5 - 3 - 1
But from what I understand about HIIT its more like: 1 - 9 - 1 - 9 - 1 - 9.
What is the difference in how these intensities effect fat loss?
-My final question is: I want to continue doing FBW workouts M and F to retain my muscle and do my HIIT on wednesday. Is this a feasable schedule to lower my BF%, assuming I keep a good diet?
Thanks in advance for your help.