Advanced HIIT Workout Plan for Fat Loss
Ladder intervals with descending reps each round, three sessions a week. Explosive bodyweight work for people who already have a base.
Routines
Day 1 — Lower-Body Power Ladder
Ladder each move for 4 rounds: 12 → 10 → 8 → 6 reps. Rest ~20–30s between moves, 60s between rounds. Keep landings soft and torso braced.
Day 2 — Total-Body HIIT Ladder
Ladder 4 rounds: 15 → 12 → 9 → 6 reps. Push pace without breaking form. Rest ~20–30s between moves, 60–75s between rounds.
Day 3 — Core Shred + Sprint Finish
Ladder 4 rounds: 12 → 10 → 8 → 6 reps. Minimal rest (~20–30s) between moves; 60–75s between rounds. Finish strong on the burpees.
About this plan
Three sessions a week, four sets of each movement, and only five exercises per day. Short, dense and genuinely advanced.
Day one runs jump squats at four sets of twelve, skater hops at twelve, rear lunges at twelve, high-knee running at forty and mountain climbers at thirty. Day two moves to burpees at twelve, jumping jacks at forty, plank jacks at twenty, jump rope at sixty and high-knee skips at forty. Day three is mountain climbers at forty, plank jacks, skater hops, high-knee running at fifty and burpees at ten.
Five exercises rather than eight is what makes this advanced rather than merely long. Four sets of the same movement means you meet it again while still fatigued from the last round, and the fourth set of twelve jump squats is a different exercise from the first.
Every session is plyometric. Jump squats, skater hops, burpees and plank jacks all involve leaving the ground and absorbing the landing, and doing that at four sets across three days a week is a substantial joint load. This plan assumes a base — if you have not been training consistently for several months, start with the beginner HIIT plan and come back.
The rest between sets is the variable that decides what this is. Ninety seconds keeps it as power work; thirty turns it into a metabolic session with degraded landings. For fat loss, sixty is a reasonable middle.
Land quietly. Noise is the simplest indicator of how much force is going through your joints rather than being absorbed by your muscles, and it degrades as you tire.
Train this plan in the app
LoadMuscle carries all 3 routines with a demo for every exercise, and logs your sets as you go, so next session you can see what to beat. Free on iPhone and Android.
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