Hi all,
I have been owndering about doing a few sets of cardio a day. I was thinkig of doing 5 x 10 minute cardio sessions do you think that this will work for fat loss or should I just keep doing my 20 minute HIIT sessions.

Hi all,
I have been owndering about doing a few sets of cardio a day. I was thinkig of doing 5 x 10 minute cardio sessions do you think that this will work for fat loss or should I just keep doing my 20 minute HIIT sessions.

5x10 min HIIT sessions?

Or just regular cardio? I think the point of regular cardio is to keep at it for 40+ min to get the desired result.

And HIIT should NEVER be done for 50 min a day. I'm in pretty decent shape, and I can only stand 20 min HIIT per day.

I'm no expert, but I believe you'd see more benefit from one long shot of cardio. When I'm doing LISS, I don't even start to sweat until 10 min in. It's the last 20 min that do it for me.

If Zenpharoah's beliefs about EPOC are correct, you will gain the most benefit from one session that is as long and hard as you can make it. Doubleoqueso's point is spot on - it's hard to get your HR up to 150 or more within the first few minutes, and that's where you need to be to really sart burning calories. If you keep stopping and restarting, you'll never hit this.

If you have a HRM, why not give it a shot? Try it for a day or two, record the calories burned, then compare to a single shot of the same duration. My money is on the single shot being the higher caloric output, and also having a larger EPOC.

I'm no expert, but I believe you'd see more benefit from one long shot of cardio. When I'm doing LISS, I don't even start to sweat until 10 min in. It's the last 20 min that do it for me.

Sweat is not an indicator of fat loss, only that effort is being made. And the point of LISS is not making a big effort (low HR %)
Watching how much you sweat is useful in the absense of any other way to measure HR... if you're performing HIIT and not sweating, you're doing something wrong (or you don't sweat :D)

Doubleoqueso's point is spot on - it's hard to get your HR up to 150 or more within the first few minutes...

Try Tabata for 4 minutes :D