Is HIIT and Traditional Strength combo working in Ultimate Strength?

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Hey everyone, I am loving the Ulitmate Strength Journey and structure. Especially the customisation and the weight tracking.

I have all three activities turned on: Traditional Strength, HIIT and Running.

The usual structure of the week (5 days) is 4 days of barbell/db/kb strength training and every week it alternates between 1 day of running or 1 day with 2-3 god workouts into 1 session.

I am toward the end of the journey and tried a few combination of the three available activities to see what the Coach would offer. I noticed that when the combo HIIT and Run are activated, the daily session really look super different. I would have HIIT circuit style training with Barbell, bodyweight and equipments with only 15 sec rest between exercises.
That metcon style training really appealed to me!

However, when I click on “traditional strength”, with Run or with HIIT, the workouts are always strength training. As if this activity was overwriting the HIIT activity, if that makes sense.

Has anyone noticed the same thing?

So, is there a way to have a REAL mix of all three? 2 days of strength, 1 run/GOD, 2 days of HIIT with equipments. OR Strength + HIIT within the same session?

Thanks,

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You’re right

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yeah I noticed the same. wondering if maybe the coach works on longer periodization? Maybe starts with traditional strength and then moves to HIIT?

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Hi @mattia.cattini , I’ve just finished my last session of the Journey and still didn’t have any proper mixed HIIT inside a session

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I played around a bit with settings and I think I understood how it works:
1-Traditional Strength Only - You get one main compound lifts + intervals using mainly dumbells, plates, kettlebells. Rest times 30/45 seconds or more. No God Workouts.
2-HIIT Strength Only - You get HIIT strength using barbell, dumbells, kettlebells. Generally 15 second rests. You also get God Workouts.
3-Both Traditional Strength and HIIT Strength - You get 1, mixed with God Workouts.

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Hi @mattia.cattini , thank you for this! It would awesome to get 1 and 2 within the same session as well!
A bit of a shame that 2 is not included and sort of replaced by God workouts. Sometimes these mixed equipment weighted interval training are more efficient. Or fun.

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Yes I agree

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