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Want to HIIT it, but Hate Sprinting? 4-Minute-HIIT-Workout using Burpees, Mountain Climbers, Squats + Thrusts w/ 3-kg Dumbbells, and Jumping Jacks Works Almost as Well

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Guys, you can benefit from bodyweight exercises, too - not just when traveling! Running ain't for everyone. I know that, ... So, if you've sustained an injury that keeps you from all-out sprints, or you simply hate sprinting, altogether, it would appear as if high-intensity interval training ( HIIT ), the time saving and in several aspects, such as the effects on post-workout oxygen consumption, superior version of "cardio" was not for you. Wrong. I belong to the group of people who are not really into sprinting, so, as mentioned before , I like using a rowing ergometer for my HIIT sessions and if that doesn't sound appealing to you, either, what about some whole body + body weight exercises? You can learn more about HIIT at the SuppVersity Never Train To Burn Calories! Tabata = 14.2kcal /min ≠ Fat Loss 30s Intervals + 2:1 Work/Rec. Making HIIT a Hit Part I/II Making HIIT a Hit Part II/II Triple Your Energy Exp. The beauty of the wor...
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Healthier, Fitter & Leaner After 12-Day McDonalds Challenge Thanks to HIIT? Plus: TRX®, Fitness ↗ Fatness ↘ in Women

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Short news: Sprinting & TRX  "Have you already burned off that burger you had for lunch today?" If that's a question you're asking yourself regularly, you are at a high risk of misinterpreting a recent study by Christian Duval et al. (2017) as a license to eat how much you want, whatever you want, whenever you want. Unfortunately, a 12-week study in which young, healthy subjects were allowed to consume only three more or less energy-adequate meals is not representative of the futile "if you eat more/worse, just exercise more"-approach to diet and exercise. Apropos exercise, if you're still looking for the right exercise to get or stay fit and healthy, TRX training, the suspension training bodyweight exercise that has purportedly been developed by/for US Navy Seals seems to actually live up to some of its promises of developing strength, balance, flexibility and core stability - overall fitness (VO2max) improvements are yet probably its greatest...
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Do We Systematically Underestimate the Energetic Costs of Push-Ups, Pull Ups, Squats & Co? Study Says Anaerobic Exercises Burn 2x More Energy Than Previously Thought

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If we go by the data from the Verzina study, push-ups and pull-ups burn 50% and 62% more energy than we previously thought they would. Against that back- ground it's no wonder that participants in the Smith study ( more ), I wrote about pre- viously got from 16% to 8% body fat. "Do We Systematically Underestimate the Energy Expenditure During Anaerobic Activities?", that's not just the question the headline of today's SuppVersity article eventually implies, it is also an essential question with a potentially consequential answer I came up with, when I read a recent paper by scientists from the Department of Exercise and Wellness at the Arizona State University (Vezina. 2014). The said paper presents an examination of the differences between two methods of estimating energy expenditure in resistance training activities and concludes that (a) "the methods we use to calculate the EE of anaerobic activities significantly affects EE estimates" and (b)...
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