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Okay, I love HIIT...I can see the results the day after. It's tasty.

However I feel like it's not the safest form of exercise. I get up to about 12mph on the treadmill...if the belt slips (it happens pretty often at that speed) I would fall on my face and have an embarassing skid mark down my cheek or worse.

Is there a safer form of HIIT? I'd like to keep my face skid-mark-free.

Also, can anyone tell me how to spell issues? I seem to have forgotten.

You could also do HIIT by:


- You could run outside! No belt slippage risk there.
- Cycling (i.e. spinning, in the gym)
- Rowing - most Concept2 models (and probably others) will have an intervals workout loaded. Probably the quickest way to get your pulse racing, since rowing involves so many muscles. It's my No.1, in fact. I can push myself far harder on a rower than on anything else, though it can get painful.
- Swimming - e.g. 50 m sprints
- Any of the weird cardio machines that I don't understand.

Any use?

Tritimium saidYou could also do HIIT by:


- You could run outside! No belt slippage risk there.
- Cycling (i.e. spinning, in the gym)
- Rowing - most Concept2 models (and probably others) will have an intervals workout loaded. Probably the quickest way to get your pulse racing, since rowing involves so many muscles. It's my No.1, in fact. I can push myself far harder on a rower than on anything else, though it can get painful.
- Swimming - e.g. 50 m sprints
- Any of the weird cardio machines that I don't understand.

Any use?

lol, I forgot instead of running on a treadmill you could just...run. There you have it.

You could also do HIIT on the elliptical, the arc trainer, the stepper or the step milll as well.

Added benefit with the arc trainer and stepper: works your glutes too, and who doesn't want a nice ass?

To have, that is.

On their person, that is.

Shit...you know what I mean.

I've experienced the "slipping" on the treadmill also, and immediately quit using that piece of equipment. I do HIIT on the step mill also. It's a killer but doable. Seems pretty safe if you're use to using the step mill. I think that if you don't use the piece of equipment regularly, it too could be dangerous. Anything moving allows for a mis-step so to speak.

That is a great question Ty

Perhaps you could add weight such as a back pack and then decrease your speed on the TM?

I am not certain, is the step mill the machine that looks like a reverse escalator?

This is a core machine in my training. Military and fire add weight with a backpack.

I also use the P90X theory of muscle confusion to build intensity, speed power and endurance.

Pryamid training: high intensity and intervals: ie chinups, situps, pushups (pullups), squats, 400 metre run, jumping jacks are also challenging and yield good results.