Morning team how are we? Rob Masters Fit College New Zealand personal trainer. Hope you’ve had a good week so far mine hasn’t been too bad. Super flat out here at Fit College, boot camps are going off the wall. Anyway, what I’m here to talk about today is high-intensity interval training. I know I’ve touched on it briefly but it’s my kind of training. I love it 100%. Okay. Why do I love it? 20 years ago I applied for the police and when you apply for the police you have to do a physical run, two and a half kilometres there or there abouts. A few weeks ago I redid the test, 20 years later I’m 20 seconds slower. I actually think that’s all right for an old man to keep that up, okay. Over 20 years, fitness not too bad, a few troughs, a few highs, things like that. But anyway, back to the high intensity stuff okay. What it is it’s a set of exercises, some form of physical activity that you exercise for about 30 seconds to a minute, rest move on to the next exercise, same again 30 to 60 seconds worth of high-intensity exercise. Just keep it going as hard as you can, rest and then you just keep rotating around your group of exercises okay.
So come over here I’ll show you what I mean. Of course, before we’ve even started this we’ve had a nice good warm-up, lots of dynamic stretches getting those legs moving arms up and down and so forth.But, a good two to three, four minute warm-up whether you’re by yourself or within the group. Then we head to exercises. I’ve got three today, sorry three. We’ve got a box jump, we’ve got a ball squat and we’ve got our friend the kettlebell, okay. So effectively I come over to the Box jump, stand in front of it, 30 seconds non-stop okay. 30 seconds of that, I take a short break. I then move to the to the weight ball, pick it up, held in front of me and I start squatting. Ball down, 15 seconds rest come over to the kettlebell, pick it up and we’re just going to do kettlebell swings for this one. All right, same again with that, anywhere between 30 seconds to a minute worth of exercise.
So we’ve got 3 forms of apparatus there. We do each anywhere between 4 to 5 times each, ok. So if it’s a minute on each one, 4 to 5 times each, you’ve got a 15 minute to 20 minute workout because you chuck your rest periods in there as well. Before you know it, you can even hear me, my breath is elevated ok, my heart’s already going and I barely did anything, ok. What this does to the body. is it raises your metabolism. If your metabolism raises you start burning a little bit more fat and those hard-to-reach places, ok. We all know what that’s like as we have progress to a little bit older.
Give it a crack. It’s a great way to exercise. It’s a little bit more fun than plodding along the street which hey, I don’t love overly that much, you may do that’s alright, it’s all good as long as you’re out there doing something. But give high intensity a go. It’s an awesome awesome way to exercise. Alright, next time we catch up we’re going to discuss about paying attention and the listening to what your PT has to say because it’s super important. See you next time I’m off that way for a bit more hip, great to see ya.
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