I honestly don't know how you look at your watch while sprinting outside. If you're going all out effort I'd say that's pretty impossible.
Recently I've been taking my HIIT sessions outside. There is a strip of road right outside of the trailor I'm staying in. I sprint one direction and jog the opposite direction. I don't do a warm-up, I just simply jog the strip first. I do have a watch and limit the session to 15 minutes, with a 5 minute cool down. My jog is about 45 seconds and the sprint is about 20 seconds, I like to keep a 2:1 ratio.
I make sure I take BCAAs before my session and also eat some carbs before doing HIIT. I try to lower my overall calorie intake on days of HIIT as opposed to weight lifting days as I'm not expending as much during a 15 minute HIIT session as opposed to a 1.5 hour workout. Sometimes I do ABS before HIIT, but that's it.
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Last edited by Merk0135; 10-18-2006 at 06:11 AM.
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