While HIIT has also been proposed for patients with lifestyle-induced chronic diseases such as coronary artery disease, heart failure, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, and metabolic syndrome (Weston et al., 2014), it may be even detrimental for cardiac insulin sensitivity and blood flow capacity as shown for healthy but untrained middle-aged men (Eskelinen et al., 2016). This evidence concerns the gene INS and Obesity.