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Interval Training
Posted on Dec 2nd 2009 12:30PM by Karen AspFiled Under: Fitness, All Workouts
If you want to maximize your workouts and bump up your calorie burn, add interval training to your fitness program. Interval training simply means alternating the intensity during a workout between hard and easier periods, using either speed or hills to bump up the intensity. Incorporate these tips into your workouts a few times a week to make the most of your time working out and improve your fitness level.
Checklist
- Cost: N/A.
- Time Commitment: Aim to incorporate intervals into your workouts 1-2 times per week.
- Location Limitations: N/A.
- Special Equipment Required: Padded shorts are recommended.
- Potential Pitfalls: N/A
- Boredom Rating: You can work intervals into any workout, so boredom is easily beaten!
- Potential Injury Risk: N/A.
- Level of Fitness Required: As long as you make sure that you allow your body to recover between each period of high intensity, interval training can be done by individuals of most fitness ranges.
- Calories Burned (based on a 150 pound woman exercising at a moderate intensity for 30 minutes): N/A.
- Body Parts Worked: Dependent on the workout.
- False Myths: Some think that interval training is something that only hardcore athletes do, but it's actually a very simple way to up the intensity of your workouts.
