SimplyShredded.com Crank It Up: 6 HIIT Cardio Workouts To Help Shred The Fat These days cardio machines are everyone’s choice of conditioning. Why? Probably because you hardly break a sweat, feel no pain, and you’re able to read the latest Gossip Magazine or text message while you’re at it. Yet as much as I do advocate using cardio machines, the correct way that is, there are other effective conditioning workouts out there. As I discussed the science and the whole 9 yards regarding HIIT cardio in my last article, I wanted to present to you 6 HIIT cardio workouts that will be fun, exhausting, a true test of mental toughness, and most importantly beneficial to your health and body compositional changes. The Energy Systems Before we pop the bottles of champagne, I want to educate you on some of the energy systems that are going to be used during these workouts. #1 High Energy Phosphate System The first being the high energy phosphate system which provides energy for muscles in the initial 1 to 15 seconds of high intensity activity (1). #2 Anaerobic Glycolytic System
HST: The Complete Hypertrophy-Specific Training Guide Hypertrophy-Specific Training™ arose out of the research looking at both the stimuli and mechanisms for muscle cell hypertrophy. Hypertrophy-Specific Training (HST) is based on physiological principles of hypertrophy first discovered in the laboratory. These principles were then organized into a “method” of mechanically loading the muscle to induce hypertrophy. The Beginning Of HST I didn’t start out knowing how muscles grew. As I entered college and graduate school, I finally had access to real research that was only just then beginning to take form. It was a “fantastic voyage” compared to the European inspired global view of training. As hypertrophy-specific research progressed in specificity it was clear that traditional training routines had stumbled across many important principles of load induced muscle hypertrophy, but because of their limited perspective (volume and intensity) they failed to capitalize on some critical truths exposed by research at the cellular level. </b>*} 12.