From my experience, you cannot do HIIT daily, it leaves you too sore. Do you have a good routine for this? Are there biological benefits to doing HIIT that I'm unaware of?
Pavel's S&S, or other anti-glycoletic training methods due work well for me as there is no soreness or need for recovery. I incorporate long walks (5 miles or more) daily to get in the cardio, sometimes go for a run or hard hike.
I'm a HIIT daily person. I used to feel sore after I upped it to every day, but that only lasted ~2 months. I was at every other day of HIIT previously.
TLDR: Shuffle a deck of cards. Assign a body weight exercise to each suit (hearts are sit-ups, spades are push-ups, etc). The pips indicates the number of reps, with face cards being 10 and aces being 1 (you can change this to Aces as 11, Kings as 13, etc). So, a 7 of hearts would mean 7 sit-ups. Continue through the deck until your can hear your soul dying. You can keep the jokers in and do 10 burpees or 1 of each exercise, or 10 of each. Up to you.
You're going to need to take breaks, but try ot go as fast as you can otherwise. I'm down to ~45 seconds per card on average. The hardest exercise to add in here are pull-ups, FYI. You're going to need to rest a lot if you have pull-ups as an exercise.
I also walk the dog at a pretty good pace, maybe in Zone 2 cardio. Usually takes ~30 minutes every day.
As an aside: I Hate working out. Some people report that they get a good feeling after a work out or that they have endorphins or some such thing. Fill in the blank yourself. I do not have any such good feeling after a work out. To give some bone fides, I've run marathons. I've swum miles and miles. I've biked all over many mountain ranges. I've been in combat sports, ball sports, artistic sports. I've done a lot of forms of work outs. I have never had a good feeling after a work out or some exercise was over. I just feel tired and sweaty and sticky. The Deck of Pain is the only routine I've been able stick to for any real length of time. It's just so punishing that I somehow don't care that I hate it.
Thanks! I like the variety that this adds. It's a good means of adding waviness to your routines, I'd imagine.
I personally like working out, once I'm in the groove. I've found that I only enjoy it on an empty stomach and in either long distance runs through the hills (where truly pushing it feels purposeful, and the effort is varied), or when I'm doing non-glycolitic work outs (sticking to the short periods where you're only using ATP). These crazy fast taxing short bursts are nice because your body can bounce back within 1 minute to 70% or 3 minutes to 100%, so it's easy to rotate through a number of push or pull exercises with small amounts of rest in between (I do yoga stretches and breath work in between). It may be the breath work that supplies the majority of the high, I don't know.
The main reason I like the Deck of Pain method, I think, is the randomness from a shuffled deck of cards. With nearly all other methods of exercise, I'm always counting down the miles/reps/laps/minutes, etc. But with the randomization, I only know the number of cards left and have no real idea what the next card holds (until the last one, I guess). Often, I'll shuffle more than one deck of cards and then just do 52, with the other half ready for the next workout. That way, I can have 'hard' days with some exercises and easy ones, further randomizing things.
I used to do HIIT daily and would always get sick (like sore throat) from 2-3 weeks. After a while I got injured and started going to normal gym. The sick periods were gone
Pavel's S&S, or other anti-glycoletic training methods due work well for me as there is no soreness or need for recovery. I incorporate long walks (5 miles or more) daily to get in the cardio, sometimes go for a run or hard hike.