Comments (0)February 10th, 2010Posted by Dr. Charles D.C. in Everything Cardio

How To Do Cardiovascular Intervals: A Lesson In Burst Training

You don’t have to do this mess of doing long, boring cardio workouts that don’t accomplish anything. In stead of the same old thing all the time, you’re going to do interval training. You’ll have better results in that intervals are best for improving body composition. There’s scientific evidence that backs this up too.

So how are intervals done and why are they so special? Intervals are doing bursts of intense exercise followed by a short period of easier exercise.

You can use exercise cycles or treadmills for your intervals so you can burn a lot of fat. When you’re done with your normal resistance exercises go ahead and get your intervals done.

This should provide for three complete exercise times every week.

Now that I’ve told you that, start your intervals with an easy warm-up period of a few minutes. When that time is complete work really hard for 45 seconds where you are added at a 90% level of exertion.

Follow that up with a recovery period of a minute and a half we should be done at a 30% rate.

It is important to have your resting rates the very easy so you’ll have the ability to do another an intense burst for your next interval. You need to do it this way for six total cycles.

Another way to do intervals will still require that warmup time, but includes an intense period of sixty seconds instead of forty five. Doing it this way will still require a minute and a half rest time at low intensity.

A general guide for your intensity level is that you have to be able to complete the interval time. If you can’t last that long, you need to ratchet it down just a little bit.

Another thing, always be sure that your recovery is that the same easy level of intensity Always finish at least six of these intervals and end up with a cooling period before you stop.

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