The rest intervals in between your exercises are one of the best ways to increase intensity in your workouts, burn body fat, build lung capacity and increase muscular endurance.
Intensity for your workouts are done in several ways, but i really trust this way of doing things as its tried and tested.
An old saying is that fitness can be defined as the ability to get up after being knocked down, and do it again straight away! This may be more of a rugby example but the example holds true.
When you transfer that to the gym or home workout imagine it like this.
You do a press up and the most people have a rest for a couple of minutes, maybe five minutes then do another exercise.
If you try to do two exercises back to back for a change, it automatically becomes harder of course, and your muscles feel much better worked, you get out of breath easier, and the whole thing becomes a much bigger effort, leading to overall better results.
This is a good way to start, press ups followed straight away by arm dips, then rest for a minute, then try another two exercises, you will be able to build up over the weeks.
Ultimately, you want to be targeting 6 exercises and up to 8 exercises in a row.
For example, if you are working at home
press ups
arm dips
alternate squat thrusts
squats
sit ups
lunges
If you were in a gym, it may be
bench press
lat pulldowns
leg press
upright rows
tricep pushdowns
curls.
This is just a small example of what you can do, and your programmes and workout ideas are only limited by your imagination!!!
Just concentrate by working on one exercise per body part and you won’t go far wrong, you can literally have a different workout every time you train!!!
So tempo of workout is everything for me, the less rest you have the better (as long as you are well conditioned first!), and once you get used to training this way, you will never go back!!!
