Yet Another HIIT vs LSD Study

[MikeMartial]

It seems every week there's a new comparision study popping up. This one uses a small number of athletes over only a 2 week period, but it does demonstrate the efficiency of HIIT, as far as time commitment.

Does Short-Term Interval Training Produce Similar Adaptations to Traditional Endurance Training?

Recently researchers at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada compared the physiological and performance effects of both interval and traditional endurance based training. Sixteen college aged men were recruited and placed into one of two groups. The sprint training group performed four to six all out maximal (~700 w) 30 second sprints separated by four minutes of recovery. The traditional endurance training group performed continuous exercise for 90

 

[XTrainer]

Thanks, I just did my HIIT. Always feels good to have your theories reinforced.

 

[Brendon Katz]

nice. those aint all the benefits of aerobic exercise though.

 

[STWACOACH**]

There are benefits t both, although we rarely use LSD. But this brought up the main reason why. If I have a guy lifting and doing MMA, to add 10 hours of running a week on top of it, is nuts. 2.5 hours of HIIT well we don't even hit that much. But LSD will always loose in the time department.