Former winner of the World’s Strongest Man, Eddie Hall, has bowed as part of his career evolution from strong man to aspiring boxer, shifting his workouts in an attempt to increase speed and strength. As he prepares for his long-awaited boxing ring matchup with rival Hafthor Bjornsson in 2021, Hall also increased his cardio.
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The world’s strongest former man, Eddie Hall, shows off his HIIT cardio routine on YouTube as he prepares for a showdown with rival Hafthor Bjornsson.
In her most recent YouTube video, The Beast demonstrated how she is using active recovery to get fit by keeping her heart rate above the aerobic threshold. In this case, that consists of a 32 minute HIIT session (one minute on, one minute off) on your day off.
Hall begins with a minute set of kettlebells. Then, after his first break, he hits the marauder, also known as the sled push, followed by a minute on the Watt bike, then the Ski Erg (a set of teams where he came very close to breaking the official world record).
Fifth, and a little less conventionally than the other moves, Hall carrying a punching bag with a baseball bat is not the worst way to overcome the frustrations he may feel, not to mention his increased heart rate.
The sixth exercise is notoriously difficult: the burpee. Hall is dripping with sweat when this set ends, and he needs a minute’s rest before moving on to the rowing machine. Then finally comes the exhausting fat burner, the battle ropes. After a further minute of recovery, Hall returns to performing the eight exercises.
“The most difficult on my heart rate were the burpees,” he says. “Everything else was hitting around 160, then the burpees brought me to 166 … That might seem like chaos training, but since we have a minute of rest in between, you never accumulate lactic acid, so it’s just empty everything, make everything move, move all the latent blood in the muscles, which helps recovery. It’s a good way to recover from weight training. “
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