I decided last night to start incorporating some HIIT back in my routine. I used to do this before my injury. This will help keep me in the habit of waking up early every morning. So now I’m going to do weight training Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and HIIT Tuesday and Thursday (maybe sometimes on Saturday?).
This morning I started easy: I did 5 minutes walking at 4.5mph; five intervals 1min@9.5mph and 2min@4.5mph; finished with 5 minute cool down walk (the treadmill does this automatically by slowly decreasing the speed from 4.5mph).
It’s been about ten weeks since I last did any HIIT, so I expected today to be hard. I was surprised at how I reacted to the workout. At the start of each work period it seemed like I could have gone up on speed (I used to do the work phase at 10.5mph). Towards the end of the work period, though, I was counting down the seconds… “Oh my God, 15 more seconds?!?”… At the end of the whole workout (25 minutes total) I noticed I hadn’t even broken a sweat. I think I’ll try 10mph on Thursday and see how that goes.
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