HIIT Flashcards
Describe HIIT
High-Intensity Interval Training
- Near maximal effort
- Elicits 80% max HR
- Rest Periods
Define MICT
Moderate Intensity Continuous Training:
- Exercise performed continuous manner
- Lower intensity than HIIT
Describe SIT
Sprint Interval Training
- VO2max Intensity
- All-out effort
- REst periods
Which skeletal muscle adaptations occur from interval training?
- Mitochondrial response: enzyme levels; electron transport chain complexes
- Changes each fiber type
- Muscle capillary density
Which Cardiovascular Adaptations occur from interval training?
- Changes in VO2max
- Adaptations in stroke volume/cardiac output
What regulates substrate metabolism during submaximal exercise?
- skeletal muscle mitochondrial density
What does an increase in mitochondrial content promote?
- Increase reliance on fat oxidation
- Proportional decrease in carb oxidation
Which techniques are used for investigating the effects of exercise on skeletal muscle mitochondria?
- Changes in signaling proteins
- Gene Expression
- Mitochondrial protein synthesis rate
- Enzyme content
- Volume of mitochondria (microscope)
- Oxidative Phosphorylation Capacity
How quickly can Citrate Synthase Activity increase after HIIT or SIT sessions?
- 24hr after 1 session
How much does Citrate Synthase and Cytochrome C Oxidase increase by following 6-7 sessions of HIIT or SIT?
- 25-35%
What happens when exercise duration and intensity are held constant regarding mitochondrial content?
- Plateau after 5 days of training
What happens to mitochondrial content when intensity continues to increase progressively?
- Rises for at least several weeks
What does evidence suggest about exercise intensity?
Cellular stress occurs in proportion to exercise intensity:
- Greater metabolic response to high-intensity exercise compared to moderate
Explain the study that shows superior mitochondrial adaptation from interval compared to continuous
- Counterweighted, single-leg cycling
- study adaptations in same subject
- 10 young men
- 6 sessions HIIT 1 leg
- 6 session MICT other leg
- Matched total work
- 2 weeks