Who is excited that it is Monday?!?!!
No one? That’s ok. Mondays are hard, but muster up some enthusiasm, people. We’re going to HIIT it!
HIIT as in High Intensity Interval Training. I talked a bit about the concept in this Do Anywhere HIIT Workout post. Basically, it consists of short spurts of high intensity exercise followed by a short rest. The goal is to push it hard (70-80% of max). You can do it, though. I really believe in you.
In less than 35 minutes you will get a warm up, a full body workout, and a cool down. This means you’ll get your workout in and have plenty of time to spare before the start of Monday Night Football (or whatever else you have planned for the evening). Awesome.
Plus, you’ll continue to burn calories long after the workout is over. This is because of a lovely little thing known as EPOC, which is excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, but you can also just think of it as afterburn.
Pretty great, right?
Yes, so let’s do it.