Upper & Lower Body HIIT for Fitness, Performance, Fat Loss & Lean Gains? Adding Arm-Cranking to Your High Intensity Interval Routine May be Less Beneficial Than You Think
No, this is not the arm-cranking ergometer that was used in the study at hand, but for those of you who like to do their HIIT exercise on the road this would be an alternative. What happens if you have 14 healthy, normal-weight, but not exactly "uberfit" men 20-50 year-old men work out twice a week for only 16- to 24-minutes for 16 weeks (total 32 sessions)? Not much, right? Well, if you make them do regular steady state cardio training on a cycling ergometer that would certainly be right. If you have them work out on a leg-cycling (LC) and an arm-cranking (AC) ergometer, though, things obviously look different... that's at least what a recent study from the Gaduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo , the Sports Medicine Research Center , the Institute for Integrated Sports Medicine , the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Radiology at the Keio University would suggest (Osawa. 2014). You can learn more about HIIT at the...