Cardio Interval Training For Superior Conditioning
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The article "Cardio Interval Training for Superior Conditioning" is about fitness, it has been created by Eddie Lomax.
Cardio Interval Training can help you reach new
cardiorespiratory endurance levels, burn more calories, increase
speed, improve power and generally improve over-all fitness
performance.
Cardio Interval Training is a series, or repeated segments, of
intense activity, alternated with periods of recovery that can
be either reduced activity or complete inactivity.
For example... you could run at a fast pace for a short distance
and then rest for a certain time period before repeating, or you
could run at a fast pace for a short distance and then reduce
the intensity to a jog for a certain time period before
repeating.
Dividing your workout into short, intense efforts pemrits you to
perform a greater volume of work at high intensity.
For example... you could perform 10 sprints of 30 seconds at
near maximum speed, whereas it wuold be impossible to maintain
the same high speed continuously for 5 minutes.
As you can see Cardio Interval Training allows you to repeatedly
reach and sustain a high level of intensity for a cumulative
time that is greater than what you could achieve during
continuous training with the same intensity.
Running was used above as an exmaple only... You can use any
method of metabolic conditioning training in the Cardio Interval
Training format.
Other examples besides running are biking, swimming, jumping
rope, calisthenics exercises, etc... even circuit weight
training is a form of Cardio Interval Training.
Cardio Interval Training is an excellent training method to reap
the benefits of anareobic training...
but Cardio Interval
Training does not have to be ecxlusively high intensity, short
duration.
The truth is...
You should perform you Cardio Interval Training
for high intensity, short duration, medium intensity, medium
duration and low intensity, long duration.
Vary your Cardio Interval Training for the hottest results.
You can manipulate your Cardio Interval Training in 7 ways to
effectively ovreload the aerobic and anaerobic energy pathways
and promote improvement.
The 7 Ways to manipulate your Cardio Interval Training are...
The number of repetitions...
How many intevrals you perform.
The distance... Short, medium or long intevral distances.
The active interval... How long you perform the interval.
The rest interval...
How long you cmopletely rest or reduce
intensity between intervals.
The active - rest ratio...
How long the atcive interval period
is compared to the rest interval.
The overall workout distance... The total dsitance of all the
interval series.
The frequency of workouts...
How often you perform Cardio
Interval Training.
Vary the methods, stresses and intensities of your Cardio
Interval Training to get the hottest results.
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