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For your busiest clients, regaining or maintaining fitness (much less training for sports excellence) can prove to be a severe challenge. When faced with a client who has very little free time<\/a>, figuring out a way to add in workouts to an already packed and exhausting schedule can prove quite challenging, to say the least.<\/p>

Overworked and rundown, these clients are often burdened by the idea that in order to reap any fitness benefits from working out, they need to have at least an hour a day<\/a> or more of free time \u2013 time enough to drive to gym, change into workout clothes, attend a session with a personal trainer or take a relevant class, and then time to shower, eat a recovery meal, and get back to work or head home to make dinner for the family, and so forth. <\/p>

This belief has led them quite frequently to forgo any efforts at maintaining physical fitness whatsoever.<\/p>

HIIT Workouts Are Proven To Be the Solution<\/h2>
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I love working with clients like this, despite the obvious scheduling difficulties that such a hectic lifestyle presents. The reason? <\/p>

These people \u2013 the busiest of the busy \u2013 can benefit so much from numerous studies (see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>) that demonstrate how significant fitness gains can be made in relatively short amounts of time, so long as that time is spent effectively and efficiently at a high enough intensity.<\/p>

No time for exercise? This @nytimeswell<\/a> guide has routines starting at 4mins https:\/\/t.co\/2eExtoHMQ2<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/LEAFcEGXuv<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Neil Varcoe (@neilwrites) May 2, 2016<\/a><\/blockquote>\n[tcb-script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"][\/tcb-script]<\/code><\/div>

In other words, High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workouts are the solution for the \"I have no time\" excuse we often hear as personal trainers.<\/p>

Improved Recovery: A Side Benefit of HIIT Workouts<\/h3>

I also find that my busiest clients tend to have less of a tendency toward overdoing it in training<\/a>, as they simply cannot put in the same amount of time training as my less time-restricted clients do. <\/p>

In other words, the time-crunched clients will usually just do the workout assigned \u2013 or maybe even half of the exercises \u2013 and then call it a workout, instead of adding in a whole bunch of \u201cextras\u201d beyond what I assigned for any given day. <\/p>

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Because they work out at this high intensity only two or three days each week, they often recover faster from workout to workout and experience fewer episodes of major fatigue and burnout<\/a> than those driven clients who always want to do a little bit more (or a lot more) than what their training schedule says they should do on any given day.<\/p>

Designing HIIT Routines For Your Clients<\/h2>

I\u2019ve designed a number of short and intense workouts using personal trainer software<\/a> that includes a helpful animation, depicting each exercise in the workout. These workouts are designed loosely along the same lines of The Scientific 7-Minute Workout<\/a> that appeared in Gretchen Reynolds\u2019 May 2013 fitness column in the \u201cNew York Times.\u201d<\/p>

Here's an example of the 7-Minute Scientific Workout from Fitness Blender<\/a>. There's no equipment required, so this is a prime place to start for clients who want something quick to do at home:<\/p>

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