Following on from yesterday’s example on interval training, you soon will be convinced that this is the way to go. All the best sessions are forms of intervals when you think about it?
I have one client who is doing the moonwalk event in London next year, and is helping her friend to get through it too.
The problem has suddenly appeared with the friend of the person i train. She has run into shin splints, and can barely do much training at all, it also doesnt help she is around 4 stone overweight, which is compounding the problem of course.
Rather than keep on the same training methods they started, which consisted of lots and lots of walking on the flat, which always resulted in pain for the shins, i recommended working on hill sprints, and hill walking.
This has now transformed the situation from one of desperation to one of hope and big achievement next year!
Due to the severe nature of the hill, the sprints are making both of them work hard and really get out breath. Getting out of breath never really happened on the flat, therefore both of them are getting fitter and because you don’t need to spend as much time training, the shin splints injury is subsiding and the boredom has disappeared.
Any time you do interval training, you work hard for a short time, then you get a short rest, then work hard again and so on until you cant do much more.
This, as i said, can be applied to any form of training, whether its weights, cycling, running or even walking.
Lets face it, nobody can go 90-100% for long, so its important to have small breaks, and this will allow your body to go further and therefore get far better results than if you employed the boring, low intensity sessions that seem to last for hourse!!!
Interval and high intensity training gives you focus and much needed results every time if done correctly, try it sometime!!!
