nbschulze's comments

Yes, that is one hundred percent accurate. They should have added "and get weird looks from the people around you" to the end of that quote.

I completely agree with you there. HIIT is a great way to get a quick workout in. It is just not fun or easy (like you've said).

My problem is more with the tone of a lot of these articles. They come across like a bad advertisement for some new medication. 'Try HIIT and get in shape with only one minute of actual exercise'.

*With warmup and cool down real time is actually closer to 10 minutes. Side effects may include vomiting, crying, and a bad case of Edgar from Men in Black walk.

Forgive me if I'm wrong here, but all of the recent articles on HIIT seem so odd to me. I feel like a lot of these articles are geared for people to read and go 'Finally! I can get my entire workout done in one minute' and that's kind of missing the point. There's not really a way to cheat your body or find an easy way out of a workout. It's supposed to hurt and be hard, that's the idea. I don't think a lot of people truly understand what 'max effort' is and how hard HIIT actually is. I ran in college and we would do workouts like this once or twice in a season because of how hard they are on you. Nothing about this type of workout is supposed to be a way to get a quick workout in. It is, however, a great way to feel like your lungs are going to explode and an even better way to forget how to walk normally. If that's your thing, great! I try and do a workout like this every week. I just think it's a little dangerous to be preaching this type of workout to people who can't find the motivation to do a 20 minute jog. I have a hard time believing they're going to suddenly find the motivation to do the hardest workout they've ever done in their life. Nothing wrong with having some inexperience with exercise, HIIT is just not the right way to help a beginner 'get into shape'.

That's awesome. All our splits were written down with pencil in our logs so I definitely felt that pain. I can definitely see a lot of places you could take it. Hope it all goes well!

Cool. Thank you!

Are the guys from TRAC here? It would be great to know more about it. I ran in college, my brother ran in college, my sister hopes to as well. I have always been frustrated that I couldn't follow along with those trackers online. We always resorted to trying to give play-by-play over the phone which isn't the most elegant solution. Definitely an area you could have a lot of impact on. Especially with the rise in popularity of marathons and other races.

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For real though, it's crazy how easy it is. I found my original Pi buried in some old stuff and was just like 'screw it, I'm going to do something with this' and then I was playing Pokemon Yellow that weekend. I've been working on the design for a cabinet for a little bit, but haven't had the chance to build it yet:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw_tsjvxUfwFZjZpZlJuTUdLdW8...

It would be great if anyone had more insight on this. I roast a pound of coffee about once every other week in my garage. I obviously grind it later, as I use it.

It would be nice to know if this is something that compounds over time or if it is just the high concentration of the chemical that is affecting the people being reported on.

Hey, thanks for the heads up. I don't think it's probably down (I was able to reach it), but probably timed out due to the limits of Heroku's free tier.