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I still think you're not hitting it hard enough.

HIIT is 'interval' training, where you go all out for 30 sec, and recover. All out...recover. Repeat 20x. Or, you do something like breathing squats to really elevate your HR. You're in great shape as is, so to truly activate EPOC, you have to work that much harder than the normal guy.

I ran some tests the other day too, although my HR monitor might not have been accurate.

With breathing squats, 3 sets of 30x200#, AHR was 187, MHR was 194.

40 min after, my pulse was still around 95bpm.

2 hours after, my pulse was 75bpm.

RHR is around 60 right now.

Which means I activated EPOC.

HIIT isn't easy to do. I've attempted numerous times to get my HR up above 185, and I fail with everything else besides breathing squats. I guess using such a large muscle group increases the requirement for oxygen and blood by that much more.