HIIT
HIIT – sostantivo
high intensity interval training – sostantivo
Recently, fitness professionals voted HIIT the third top fitness trend for 2019 in a survey by the American College of Sports Medicine.
Jump into high-intensity interval training with our easy-to-follow HIIT workouts and learn how to avoid common mistakes.
Train hard with this cardio HIIT workout—no equipment needed. You can do it in your living room, or anywhere.
L’interval training, o allenamento intervallato, è un tipo di allenamento che alterna esercizi eseguiti ad alta intensità con altri a intensità minore. L’HIIT è, in un certo senso, l’evoluzione dell’interval training e prevede esercizi ad alta intensità intervallati da periodi di recupero attivo mediante attività aerobica. Per quanto non ci sia consenso su cosa costituisca l’HIIT, una sessione tipica può consistere in ripetizioni di sprint alla massima velocità seguiti da jogging, o scatti ad altissima intensità sulla cyclette o sul vogatore intervallati da pause. I momenti ad alta intensità sono brevi, dunque la durata dell’allenamento è inferiore a quella degli allenamenti tradizionali, di solito intorno alla mezz’ora o meno. Pare che l’allenamento di tipo HIIT migliori la capacità cardiovascolare e aiuti a dimagrire, ma richiede senz’altro una forte motivazione.
Origini del termine
L’HIIT è usato da decenni dagli atleti, sia di sport individuali sia di squadra, con vari protocolli messi a punto nel secolo scorso. Come regime di fitness si è imposto nel decennio in corso.
Traduzione di Loredana Riu
HIIT noun
high intensity interval training – noun
Recently, fitness professionals voted HIIT the third top fitness trend for 2019 in a survey by the American College of Sports Medicine.
Jump into high-intensity interval training with our easy-to-follow HIIT workouts and learn how to avoid common mistakes.
Train hard with this cardio HIIT workout—no equipment needed. You can do it in your living room, or anywhere.
Interval training is a type of exercise that alternates high with medium- or low-intensity activity. HIIT is a type of interval training that consists of short bursts of extremely intense activity interspersed with periods of medium-intensity activity. While there is no agreement on exactly what constitutes HIIT, a typical session might consist of fast sprinting alternated with jogging, or short bursts of cycling or rowing at maximum intensity followed by short periods of less intense activity. The intensity of the short bursts means that the overall training period is short, lasting at most half an hour and often much less. HIIT is believed to improve cardiovascular fitness and aid weight loss, but it requires a level of motivation that may be beyond most people.
Origin
HIIT has been used by professional athletes and sportspeople for decades, with several different regimes being developed by different trainers in the course of the 20th century. As an exercise regime for the general public it has come to the fore in the current decade
