Shifting on the fly from an explosive, HIIT-centric mindset to an endurance mindset is easier said than done. Especially when you’re “wired” for repeat explosive activities. This was a little something I thought about during my 500-mile bike trek through Oregon. …and Lord knows I had plenty of time to think. About this and a… [More…]
Keeping within Striking Distance
One of the major advantages of my version of HIIT (or “HIIRT” as I like to call it) is something that most wouldn’t necessarily consider an advantage: the ability to stay within striking distance of just about any sport I might want to concentrate on in the future. I’ve had to become a hell of… [More…]
The Single Best Training Method for the Busy Professional?
“I was always honest about my weak points. This helped me grow. I think it’s a key to success in everything: be honest, know where you’re weak; admit it.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger If you follow my training log over at the TTP Facebook group (and you should!) you’ll see the cornerstone of my training is done… [More…]
A Typical 30 Minute, HIIRT Workout
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” – Anais Nin So on the heels of my All HIIT / HIIRT, All the Time? post, this: a post about nailing a HIIT / HIIRT workout. Because the training life is (or ought to be!) like that. Waving intensities, weaving modalities; for… [More…]
All HIIT / HIIRT, All the Time?
“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” -Mahatma Gandhi Let’s cut to the chase on this: all of *anything* — all of one way — all the time, is a disaster in the… [More…]
Managing the Variables
“The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld Ever wonder what the relationship is, in a practical sense, between systemic fatigue, workout-induced muscular failure, workout volume, and that oftentimes misinterpreted word, “intensity”? And, more to the point, what is the interplay between these factors and workout frequency? And… [More…]
Losing Your Religion
“The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.” – Henri Frederic Amiel It’s often said that diet is second only to religion insofar as each topic’s ability to generate heated debate among “believers” who will defend to the grave their sacred beliefs. The same phenomena is… [More…]
HIT, HIIT…or HIIRT?
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe The ARXFit Alpha providing this particular session’s HIIRT train caboose. Huh… Curious as to what the differences are between HIT,… [More…]
Full-Spectrum HIIT
“The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often even more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.” – Niccolo Machiavelli Don’t be fooled into thinking that High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is solely about efficient metabolic conditioning; to do so would be to limit… [More…]
The Efficient Exercise Method
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, continued, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.” – John F. Kennedy Resistance-exercise-based High Intensity Interval Training — it’s the Efficient Exercise bedrock training philosophy. It also constitutes the underpinning of my own personal training regimen. Properly programmed… [More…]