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What is a HIIT Workout & 5 Reasons to Try One

HIIT, or high-intensity interval training, is a workout where you will cycle through burst of activity that reaches close to 100% of your maximum followed by active recovery periods. This type of workout which blends anaerobic and aerobic activity gets and keeps your heart rate up and burns fat in less time.

If that last sentence wasn’t enough to get you interested click the buttons above to see a slideshow of 5 more  benefits of HIIT workouts.

It revs up your metabolism and keeps it going long after you finished your workout. Working out at 100% of your max is hard but manageable in short bursts vs. the Herculean mental and physical challenge of keeping that kind of intensity up for long periods. Fortunately the combination of anaerobic and aerobic activity is great for your metabolism which ticks up and stays there for at least a day after your workout while your body recovers.

Efficiency. With HIIT you can reduce the amount of time you devote to working out. The cycle of workout sprints, recovery, then more sprints is such a great cardio workout you can compress the amount of time you devote to working out and get the same or even better results. –The New York Times has a seven-minute version. Personally, I need a bit more to compensate for my wine and cheese addiction but I have managed to whittle workouts down to 45 minutes from an hour or more.

Endless variety. Almost any workout can be modified to fit a HIIT pattern. Running stairs, swim sprints, biking, weight training, vinyasa yoga, biking, boot camp style calisthenics, barre style workouts. Switching to Dailey Interval offered at the Daily Method helped me lower my resting heart rate and lose weight while maintaining the core strength and flexibility from longer and slower workouts.

Adaptable. You can adapt HIIT to your level of fitness and physical health. Remember that 100% is based on your fitness level so a professional desk jockey will start off with a significantly different version of 100% than a professional athelete. Also, if you are dealing with an injury the variety noted above means you can work around many limitations and keep at HIIT workouts while you recover.

2 years ago you would have asked me about barre and I would have told you it was the best workout in the world and all you need to do 5 days a week for optimal fitness. It will help you lose weight, tone, build strength, gain flexibility, give you piece of mind, and change your life as it did mine. Well after 2 full years of being a client and 1 full year of teaching barre…I have decided to hang up the grip socks.

A month ago I had to stop teaching with the main reason being my other commitments were growing and my social life as well as my energy level were suffering. But another big reason was that I began questioning what I was saying and doing.

When I started taking barre 2 years ago, it was after 3 years of road running. Lots of half-marathons, 10K’s, 5K’s, etc under my belt. I was training for the NYC marathon when I injured my IT band and ankle. My sports doctor told me long distance running was not healthy for my joints in the long term (I was learning that from my own research just before my injuries) and that I was lacking the proper muscle strength to protect my joints from the constant impact. I began doing my own workouts but I knew I needed some professional guidance, and someone who wasn’t trying to have me compete in a world bodybuilding competition. I heard about barre workouts and decided to give it a go. After my first month I fell in love. I saw the tone it gave me, I loved the movement, the stretching, and it was different from anything else I’ve done. In that first few months I gave up running and focused solely on barre 5-7 days a week.

Beginning my teaching career propelled me into a serious fitness education journey. Yes I had “barre certification”, but it was a day of “anatomy lessons” and other days of learning how to speak in “barre”, remember names, correct form, etc. Initially, I drank the Kool-Aid barre was serving, but a number of things made me begin to question what I was doing and saying to clients:

1.     My own neck and back spasms began. Something that has never happened to me before. Going to my doctor she was worried about my spine alignment and losing the natural curves causing more pressure and pain. I had been taking barre and barre alone for a year…it was supposed to better my posture not worsen it. 2.     I had clients developing injuries from barre work including foot injuries, lower back injuries, and hip flexor pain. 3.     People who had been taking barre for years, longer than I have, were working extremely hard and not seeing much change. Not just in their body, but in their ability to withstand the exercise after years of doing basically the same thing 3-5 times a week. 4.     Why was I reading all these scientific articles, taking these other fitness classes, working with personal trainers who said the complete opposite of what I was asking my clients todo.

To Tuck or Not To Tuck, That is…One Question

The tuck is the basis of barre workouts. Dropping your tailbone, rolling your hips forward and gripping your glutes. This creates resistance when lifting your chest and/or moving your thigh in opposition causing tension which in turn strengthens your core and lifts your butt. This posterior pelvic tilt can be great for good looking abs, but down the road, what it also does is cause future permanent curvature of the lumbar spine leading to back posture, lower back, hip, and leg pain. Many of the things myself and clients have been experiencing. In barre, you tuck and curve your back for almost an entire hour. And depending on your flexibility, this can be more or less painful while taking class.

So the other question is… “Are great abs now, worth back pain and a curved back later?” Not for me. But you can’t take a class without an instructor telling you or physically tucking you deeper even though many barre workout founders tell you not to “over-tuck”.  I began skipping out on the last 15 minutes of class which focused heavily on “curl work”. Something I actually learned years ago was bad for your spine.

HIIT vs Barre

I had to dig deeper. I began reading all these articles in the NY Times and other publications which delved into the science behind High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). Without going into a science lesson here, check out my previous post here. Effective and efficient workouts are what I wanted vs. moderate intensity, lengthy workouts which is essentially what barre is. I began introducing this into my workout routine about 6 months ago starting just once a week. I still loved my barre though because of the changes I saw it do for me. But I realized doing this new workout, their method was heavily based on science and research, touching on a lot of things I was reading. Not based on a dancers theory from 40 years ago. They focused on finding neutral spines in the warm-up, throughout the exercises, and in the stretch. Getting your heart-rate to its max and shorter intervals to burn fat in class and throughout the day. I began incorporating this process into the classes I taught, but it definitely went against my barre learnings. Then I saw myself increasing my HIIT training to 3 times a week, and lessening my barre days. I’ve seen my body change beyond what barre has been able to do and I deal with less to no back pain during the class.

The Do’s and Mostly Don’t’s

I have begun working on getting certified in group fitness instruction through a nationally recognized fitness certification organization. In this process I continue to learn more and more about proper fitness, technique, form, etc. Since barre instructors come with dance backgrounds you expect them to know what is proper. But the tools they’re given, which is generally a list of pre-made exercises from corporate, are faulty on their own. You might ask…if they’re faulty… why do so many dancers have amazing bodies and why do so many people see results.

Starting with the dancers question…as a dancer, most have started dancing since they were in the single digits as their bones and muscles were still developing. They have developed flexibility, strength and control in areas needed for dance over decades. Many who take these barre workouts have been sitting at school desks and work desks for decades. Or doing different forms of exercise to where these barre exercises force strain in areas like lower back, hip flexors, toes, knees etc. The positions required are difficult to hold without proper core strength and the support ends up shifting into the wrong areas.

Even for non-dancers, people have different ranges of strength and flexibility. I tend to work the lowest in thigh work because I have strengthened my quads over the years, but many would feel knee pain at that range. Some can lift their thighs to almost vertical in round-back and flat-back work, but my hip-flexors keep me from reaching those heights due to the pull on my lower back. But that’s not something you’re explained when taking classes. You’re pushed to get higher, work lower and tuck more when you’re already in these alignment-compromising positions. It fuels injury.

Shape had a great article on the Best & Worse Barre Exercises. I realized that I was doing all of the worse exercises in my classes I was taking and teaching. There’s also this article on staying Injury Free in barre workouts. The feet thing freaks me out and I have definitely developed pain in my foot joint.