Sure, interval training is tough–the short bursts of high-intensity exercise alternating with active rest periods of slower, less intense exercises can really kick your butt! But the hard work pays off even beyond blasting last night’s ice cream splurge. Here are three reasons why you should do it:
1. You’ll get a great calorie blasting benefit. The mix of short intense exercises and longer aerobic activities can burn more calories than your average workout and interval training increases your metabolism for up to 36 hours after the workout!
2. It’ll whip you into shape. Pushing yourself to your max and then bringing yourself to a baseline can help you improve your aerobic capacity and the frequent rest and recovery periods are better for enhancing heart function than working at a steady pace.
3. Beat boredom for both your mind and muscles. Unlike static activities like running or stair climbing at a steady pace, interval circuit training requires that you switch between a bunch of different moves. So it’s harder for your body to get used to the workout and therefore it’s more challenging, you won’t get bored as quickly and you’ll reduce your risk of injury because you’re not working the same muscles over and over again.
define sad.
I just wrote an article on this for a diet company and yet cant (wont? I gues I need to OWN IT) make my own damn self DO IT
yet.
M.
Running can be interval training. It’s not the activity that dictates whether it is interval training or not, it is the intensity and duration of the work period. For example, you could do a 45 second sprint followed by a 90 second jog, and repeat to times. That is an interval using running as the mode of exercise.
exactly, Frank.
what I wrote about I mean.
now to DO IT
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