Thoughts on HIIT

SocialJusticeWhiner · 2016-11-04T05:50:34+00:00

Search To Be A Beast by jordan feigenbaum

He has excellent recommendations for weight loss. You're setting yourself up for injury and burnout. I've been there.

Dadjokez69 · 2016-11-07T12:58:59+00:00

To answer your question, yes that's unreasonable, but you are on the right track.

You are 20% bodyfat so you are fat. To lose weight you have to eat less calories than what your body need. A standard caloric deficit is 500 calories per day less than your tdee (tdeecalculator.net), maybe around 1900 Calories for you. At this rate, you will lose 4-5 pounds per month.

If you want to go on a more aggressive cut, you can eat at a 1000 calories deficit, losing ~8 pounds per month. Going higher than this is not recommended, except for extremely overweight people.

Activity such as HIIT will simply increase your caloric needs, but cardio also makes you hungrier. Choosing to do cardui it's up to you, but it's not necessary.

On a cut, you also need to reduce your activity levels, 2x a day 5 days a week is way too much. Every other day is much better for HIIT cardio (you can add LISS cardio like walking etc... on off days it works well).

Finally, going on a high deficit is easier while you are fat, but as you get closer to 10% bodyfat you will need to reduce the deficit and/or add what is called "refeed" days, where you eat at maintenance.

Counting your calories with an app like myfitnesspal is much better if you are not used to do a proper cut. In your case, i'd count about 3 months to have decent abs and reevaluate the situation. Best is to stay between 10% and 15% bodyfat.

The__Tren__Train · 2016-11-03T23:42:56+00:00

You are fat.

Improve your diet.

2 a day workouts will burn you out so quick you'll be left wondering wtf happened.

I'm on the sauce and I only lift 4 times a week.

DecrepitDelineation · 2016-11-04T02:14:29+00:00

Why are you asking about HIIT? Is it because you want to lose weight and you enjoy cardio more than lifting?

Because if you like cardio, do it. If you like lifting, do it. But eating right is the real key to weight loss.

Title	Thoughts on HIIT
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Date	November 3, 2016 11:10 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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