HIIT it at home!

WOAH, that was a long week.

Recently I had to take my own advice and REST. My body was telling me that it needed some time to chill and heal - so this week I haven't trained. I have revised my program ready to start again today. Excited is an understatement! I was so excited to get moving again that I woke up at 6.30am (been on early shifts all week so my body clock decided to work for the first time in my life!) and had fun with a 20 minute HIIT workout.

2 years ago this was how I lost a lot of weight and kick started my metabolism after years of neglect. A total gym newbie and scared of the free weight area (now you can't get me out!) I tucked myself away and did HIIT workouts for 20 min 5x a week, some resistance machine work and cardio. I then started to incorporate weight training when my confidence grew and now I always remember the intense 20 minutes and how amazing I felt after.

3 months into training using HIIT, Resistance machines and cardio.

Try this simple but effective routine:

* High Knees - 30s

* Squats - 30s

* Reverse Lunges - 30s

* Mountain Climbers - 30s

* Push Ups (Knees or Full) - 30s

Rest - 1min

Repeat - x3-4

You want to push yourself as hard as you can for the 30s (you can add rest between if you need but keep it super short!). HIIT stands for HIGH INTENSITY interval training, so you want to be getting into that upper end of your effort level guys.

A lot of people ask me how I achieved my weight loss and transformation and I always tell them about how I started with HIIT - also because my asthma would allow this but not a longer duration of cardio. My later progression was thanks to Ben Gilles my Personal Trainer at the time and my own PT training - I always recommend getting into some free weight work to build healthy muscle to feel strong - FEELING STRONG IS AMAZING! You can find me training and working at David Lloyd in Norwich or jumping around & sweating in my living room.

Stay strong guys <3

Lizi.

Punk PT.