Keeping your workouts short and intense at last seems to be gathering more support these days.
When you begin a run or anything else very aerobic, your body uses energy from your fat supplies and from the food you eat.
After around 45 minutes of exercise, then it switches to energy taken from your muscles, and soon it will break down your muscle tissue to keep you going which is not the best thing to happen to you. All of that hard work lifting in the gym could be wasted to a degree by overdoing your training efforts!
It doesn’t take a genius to work out then that workouts 45 minutes or shorter in duration tend too give you the very best results.
All of the benefits of a long run can be achieved from a more intense, faster and shorter run.
One of my favourite ways to do this is interval workouts. You have heard me talk about this a lot, and let me explain again.
Start off for the first 5 minutes with a slow run for a warm up, then the next one minute you run at 80% of your capacity, then the next two mins would be 40% of your capacity, then one minute at 80% again, then back to 40% for 2 mins again and try to get this up to 15 mins, when you are capable of doing this, you will be in good shape.
When you get to the 15 mins mark, always make sure you do a 5 mins slow run to make sure you heart rate cools down properly, meaning you will be getting a great 20 minute very efficient workout in!
This way of training is far more effective than steady running, and will get your heart and lung health in outstanding health with regular practice!!!
Your body will be in better shape and your metabolism will be firing along a lot quicker!!
