My 45-Minute HIIT Cardio Session

Darlings, hope you all had a great weekend!  For the past month or so, I have been dedicating longer workout sessions to Mondays since I’m totally dragging and need a good sweat session to feel like myself again for the week.  Anyone else feel the same way?  Plus,  I give myself more wiggle room for cheat meals (and carbs) on the weekend so there’s plenty of stored energy for my Monday morning workouts.

My typical Monday workouts consist of a 45 minute HIIT cardio session on the treadmill (since it is way too hot to be running in this Houston weather) followed by some weight training.  Let’s get real – anything over 20 minutes on a cardio machine is basically the death sentence for me so the ONLY way I can survive 45 minutes is to do it the HIIT way.  By constantly changing up the pace (and sometimes incline), I am continuously challenging my body while also allowing for short periods of active rest.  I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again – HIIT blasts fat, burns calories, and also builds your endurance!  Slow and steady is NOT the way to go here ladies.  

There are so many sample cardio workouts – some focus on the speed while others focus on the incline.  For me, I focus on building speed and here’s what my run is looking like right now.  Like I said, I am ALWAYS dragging on Mondays so my “warm-ups” are usually about 10 minutes, but midweek, I perform a similar exercise in half the time with more intensity.  I’ve really grown to enjoy my HIIT cardio on Mondays because it eases me into the rest of my week and I have seen an immense improvement in my endurance and speed which makes me so proud. (This is coming from a non-running mama who averages like a 9:30-10min mile on a good day.)

Woot woot!  Cheers to making your weaknesses your strengths 🙂
Let’s get sweaty, darlings!