Are there benefits in doing cardio more than once a day?

[Vortexx]

Lately everybody seems to cater towards HIIT, would it still be usefull to HIIT pre-breakfast for claimed added fatburning?

As clarence bass stated the HIIT training besides increase in VO2 max / long capacity is more specific muscle training in the sence that a swimmer training HIIT cannot maximaly transfer his superb condition on a stairmaster as the swimmer maximized upper body condition while the stairmaster depends on quads primarely.

Following this line of taught, If one was to have 2 HIIT session in one day, let's say pre-breakfast and one before bedtime (only some whey protein shake after that), would it be beneficial to have one uppebody HIIT traiing and one lowerbody HIIT training???

I.e:

pre-breakfast : short track swimming sprints (my favorite on holidays, i use a scuba mask so that i can breath continuasly without lifting my head out of the water, you build swimming condition really fast)
before bedtime: stairmaster insterval attack?

I fact during holidays this was what i did and also had ridiculous weighttraining session at noon. I was eating all that i could get my hands on, but BMR was so much elevated that within 2 weeks i got really hard.

 

[Vortexx]

It's postulated that the 20 on 10 seconds rest interval is the best to maximise both aerobic anaerobic condition....

My question if one starts out doing HIIT should one start with immediately with 20 seconds interval or gradually work towards it, like i see in some HIIT variants like :

session 1
40 on 20 rest
session 2
30 on 15 rest
session 3
20 on 10 rest

etc
????

 

[Vortexx]

What you think will happen if we combine HIIT with t-mag meltdown 2 training?

like
MO
pre-breakfast short track swimming
evening : stairmaster interval
TH
t-mag meltdown interval weighttraining, icluding olympic lifts
WE
pre-breakfast short track swimming
evening : stairmaster interval
etc...

I think you wouyld end up with an all trades fitness monster that could give serious competition in all kinds of speed/strength sport..


I will give it a try next holiday, i can't hardly wait to get that awesome feeling of being able to take on the world again..

 

[Mjollnir]

Mjollnir have you tried that method out yourself? The one thing I found odd about the article was that they suggest only doing that type of training once or twice in a week. I'm wondering if its possible to cut down the amount of weeks needed for maximum results by training more frequently.

Indeed I have, and it has worked out quite well. I use it, however, in conjunction with some longer (bicycle) training, both during longer rides and apart from them, to help with sprinting. The fat loss effects are noticable.

The idea has been around for quite some time. I recall my coaches from years ago talking about running 'telephone poles', or sprinting between them for 2, then walking between the next two, etc....