My interest in practicing physical exercises starts when I was a child, when I attended swimming lessons at school. As a teenager in the same school, I started to practice athletics (I was champion in some competitions in the school in the category of 100 meters 😁 ), but the sport that really was and until today is my life is Basketball. I played for many years starting with the school team and then playing in some clubs in the youth category until I had the problem of my knee and the obligation to join in the Brazilian army.
In the army, even with my military duties, I had time to do bodybuilding at the gym that was available to us at the military unit. After the military service, I still continued this activity for 5 years. I was able to define my body well. Arms, legs, back, chest defined, but I had no further motivation to continue going to the gym and nor time due to my professional obligations.
In order not to be sedentary, for about 2 years I have learned this lesson that I will share with you today, which are the circuit exercises called HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training), an innovative method in the practice of physical exercises, where we can do several exercises in a short time. Perfect for those who do not have much time and patience to spend two hours in the gym. You can read more about HIIT in this link.
According to surveys, this type of exercise when performed regularly, has more benefits than a light training of 1 hour in the gym. HIIT has intense exercises with a short rest period (the interval between one exercise and another is a maximum of 60 seconds and for all the series it does not take more than 10 minutes), so I can concentrate better to be able to perform successfully each series.
As these exercises work practically all the lower and upper muscles, the constant pains that I felt in the back, neck and in my knee so punished by basketball, were diminished.
I practice the series usually in the morning, around 6:00 A.M. (yes, I wake up early), in fasting, before breakfast. With this, I can feel more willing and due to the release of endorphin after the exercises, I feel more calm, concentrated and willing to perform my daily tasks.
Surely the discovery of HIIT was a great lesson for me. Today I keep my body in shape, without damaging and wearing down my muscles, with speed, practicality and great pleasure in performing each exercise.
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