Modern air bikes are far from the creaky machines your parents had at the local Y decades ago. Today’s machines are overbuilt and imposing. With bigger fans, heavier components, and electronic performance ... Continue Reading
The Best HIIT Workouts With Bodyweight, With Kettlebells, and More
Whether you call it conditioning, metcon, or plain old “cardio,” some type of cardiovascular training is necessary to achieve results you can’t replicate with standard weight training alone. While there ... Continue Reading
Fencing: The Sport You Should Be Doing
NYU has taught me a lot and one of those things were, sports needn’t be concussion-inducing, ego inflating, and have a retirement age of 45 to be considered legit. Sometimes we overlook things such as ... Continue Reading
HIIT versus HIRT
Your feelings don’t matter! That is, your subjective feeling of the effectiveness of a workout is not important as what science tells us is important to building an impressive base of endurance and ... Continue Reading
HIIT Reductio is Better Than Nothing, Much Better
Limited research has examined exactly how inactive people perceive high-intensity interval training (HIIT). Matthew Stork, a PhD candidate in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBC's Okanagan ... Continue Reading
A Simple Anywhere Anytime HIIT Workout
When it comes to well, anything these days, people are always looking to get the biggest and quickest “bang for their buck.” Workout-shopping is no exception. The more calories in a shorter amount of time, ... Continue Reading
The Myth of Interval Training and EPOC
You may have heard of EPOC, or as it’s commonly known, the “afterburn” effect. Recently, it’s been widely publicized as an explanation for the benefits of high intensity interval training (HIIT). People ... Continue Reading
HIIT Helps Maintain VO2 Max, But Not Soccer Skills
Many people tout the benefits of high intensity interval training (HIIT). According to a recent study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, it might work well enough to only need ... Continue Reading
