Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger.

I recommend short duration high intensity workouts once or twice a week and recently Arvind also wrote an awesome post on HIIT which explains the pros and cons of such training. The problem seems to be that a lot of folks seem to not understand what high intensity means. In order to give you an idea of what high intensity is we shot a little video today. Below are the details.

Workout:

10 rounds for time (i.e. as fast as possible)

• 5 jump squats
• 5 pushups
• 3 strict pull-ups

Here is the workout.

Note:

• These sound like small numbers but when you add them up the workout contains 50 pushups, 50 jump squats and 30 pull-ups (130 reps) all in less than 4 mins. So beware.
• This is a condensed form of my usual workout. Most of my high intensity workouts are ~ 10 mins. The idea was to keep the video under 5mins and hence the shorter workout.
• Scale appropriately! If you cant do pushups do knee pushups etc.
• If you can do this without issues, do my regular version which is 20-5 rounds or 10 pushups, 10 squat jumps, 6 pushups for 10 rounds.

Peace.