As we were evolving, our bodies learned to use a greater proportion of energy by performing tasks in intervals over performing the exact same task at a steady and constant pace. During the course of any one day; hunting and gathering, climbing, walking and carrying would all involve intermittent bouts of short bursts of high intensity activity. In ...
HIIT is what comes naturally. It should therefore be no surprise that we experience
superior benefits using HIIT over CT. If you feel the need to relate HIIT to a more modern perspective then simply think about children and what they naturally do in the playground when playing with other children. Do children play at the same pace for an hour at a time? Or do they instead run around for a few seconds or minutes and then stop for a...
As a consequence and to reiterate, we burn more calories naturally by performing any task in intervals over performing the same task at the same rate for a prolonged period of time. This is true as long as the interval reaches a high intensity, such as if you were running away from a spear wielding ancestor. In fact, the higher the intensity the be...
better be able to cope with these new physiological conditions. This is evolution. Let’s…
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