Cardio and the fat burning zone
the "fit-for life" guy advocates this sort of training. he would run only 20 minutes for his workout, but it was a tough 20 minutes.....I did it a couple of times, and it would be very difficult to maintain that sort of training. danny is right....sprint. walk, sprint, walk...puke.
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.
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Kind of makes sense. Intensity work means your body has to recover from more micro-injuries than it would from a distance workout. That's one of the reasons they say not to interval train more than once or twice a week. That long recovery time might burn more calories than we thought.
Sprag, I'm not the best person to answer this, but I can give you the gist of it. HIIT means you're exercising in bursts with a short rest between sets. The details of it vary depending on your workout. It's generally unpleasant and puking becomes a real possibility, but the results have been shown to be great time and time again. If you want to get stronger and faster in a hurry, interval training is the way to go.
It's kind of like bouldering training when you're constantly working a crux instead of just once or twice per route.
Sprag, I'm not the best person to answer this, but I can give you the gist of it. HIIT means you're exercising in bursts with a short rest between sets. The details of it vary depending on your workout. It's generally unpleasant and puking becomes a real possibility, but the results have been shown to be great time and time again. If you want to get stronger and faster in a hurry, interval training is the way to go.
It's kind of like bouldering training when you're constantly working a crux instead of just once or twice per route.
Ticking is gym climbing outdoors.
Kinda the same thing as lactate theshold training? Pushing 95% mHR for short periods? Seems like once you had pretty good general fitness (maybe run a 10k without to much trouble) that kinda of training would be good for climbing.
I have been running a bunch latly, mixing up treadmill, inside track and hilly outdoor courses. I think a couple more weeks of this, then I am going to start working on the HIIT thing a bit more.
Also, the key to being able to train for the long term is rest and recovery. I know I feel way better the next day if I drink a protien/recovery type drink after my longer runs.
Wes
I have been running a bunch latly, mixing up treadmill, inside track and hilly outdoor courses. I think a couple more weeks of this, then I am going to start working on the HIIT thing a bit more.
Also, the key to being able to train for the long term is rest and recovery. I know I feel way better the next day if I drink a protien/recovery type drink after my longer runs.
Wes
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Is this the same thing as Body For Life? Bill Phillips' 20 minute aerobic workout is tough has hell. Jeff did two challanges back to back and looks absolutely amazing. It definitely works.pigsteak wrote:the "fit-for life" guy advocates this sort of training....
Does he have a strange bear claw like appendage protruding from his neck? He kep petting it.
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artsy,
yes, "fit for life" and "body for life" are both Phillip's books. My biggest problem with the 20 minute workout is not enough warmup for an old geezer in his 30's. He has a 2minute warmup, and then you start upping the intensity.
meadows, basically, Phillips is about high intensity intervals. He doesn't give you time constraints, but effort constraints. He says to give your self an effort scale, with one sitting on your ass, and 10 a workout that you think impossible to pull off. So with the 20 minute workout, it is 2 min. at a 4, 1 min at 6, 1 min at 7, 1 min at 8, 1 min at 9, and then back dwon to level 6 for another minute. After 4 cycles thru that, the final push is 2 minutes at a 10 effort of level, which he admits is damn near impossible...then comes the puking.
yes, "fit for life" and "body for life" are both Phillip's books. My biggest problem with the 20 minute workout is not enough warmup for an old geezer in his 30's. He has a 2minute warmup, and then you start upping the intensity.
meadows, basically, Phillips is about high intensity intervals. He doesn't give you time constraints, but effort constraints. He says to give your self an effort scale, with one sitting on your ass, and 10 a workout that you think impossible to pull off. So with the 20 minute workout, it is 2 min. at a 4, 1 min at 6, 1 min at 7, 1 min at 8, 1 min at 9, and then back dwon to level 6 for another minute. After 4 cycles thru that, the final push is 2 minutes at a 10 effort of level, which he admits is damn near impossible...then comes the puking.
Positive vibes brah...positive vibes.
I've never heard of Fit for Life, by Bill Phillips, but I've read Body For Life and thought is was great. It was hard for me to do when I tried it, since I train a few times a week in a climbing gym, so I just modified it to accomodate my schedule.
Meadows - What pigsteak said was a good description of the B4L aerobic workout and I agree that that the warm up and cool down probably aren't enough (although I thought I remembered the warm up being two at level 5 instead of 4 and only one minute at level 10 and then a cool down at 5 for one minute). It's hard as hell and I've never been able to stay the full minute at level 10 (one minute at level 9 is brutal and hard to finish!).
Jeff introduced me to an invaluable book called the Schwarbien Principle. For awhile I intertwined both these books' practices with a touch of my own regime and was able to achieve really good results. Like any good habit, though, this was easy to quit so now I've regressed to the "PT diet"; Part of the time I'm good and part of the time I'm bad. 8)
B4L is a great read and the fundamentals are like good health 101. It's not really intended for people like you (you're like the "after photos" of the people in the book) but I'd recommend it for anyone to read. It's extemely inspiring and there's a lot to be learned from it.
Meadows - What pigsteak said was a good description of the B4L aerobic workout and I agree that that the warm up and cool down probably aren't enough (although I thought I remembered the warm up being two at level 5 instead of 4 and only one minute at level 10 and then a cool down at 5 for one minute). It's hard as hell and I've never been able to stay the full minute at level 10 (one minute at level 9 is brutal and hard to finish!).
Jeff introduced me to an invaluable book called the Schwarbien Principle. For awhile I intertwined both these books' practices with a touch of my own regime and was able to achieve really good results. Like any good habit, though, this was easy to quit so now I've regressed to the "PT diet"; Part of the time I'm good and part of the time I'm bad. 8)
B4L is a great read and the fundamentals are like good health 101. It's not really intended for people like you (you're like the "after photos" of the people in the book) but I'd recommend it for anyone to read. It's extemely inspiring and there's a lot to be learned from it.
Does he have a strange bear claw like appendage protruding from his neck? He kep petting it.
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