HIIT

See also: hiit

English

Noun

HIIT (uncountable)

1. (exercise) Initialism of high-intensity interval training: a form of exercise based on short bursts of intense effort, such as sprinting.
   • 2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 151:

     Perhaps I would struggle to do a HIIT session.

   • 2023 March 15, Amanda Loudin, “A 19-Minute HIIT Workout for Beginners”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     HIIT’s specific origins are uncertain; some say it dates back to at least the early 1900s and Finnish Olympic runners who would use alternating short bursts of intensity with brief bouts of recovery to bolster their overall speed.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “exercise”): LISS

Related terms

• HIT

Translations

high-intensity interval training

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高強度間歇訓練／高强度间歇训练 (gāoqiángdù jiànxiē xùnliàn)

• Finnish: HIIT-menetelmä
• French: entraînement fractionné de haute intensité m
• German: HIIT n, Hochintensitäts-Intervalltraining n
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can