I know I mention this quite a bit in my posts, but I am a firm believer that Interval Training is the way to go! Do not get me wrong I still love continuous and long distance training, but nothing gets the body pumping like interval training does. Interval training increases your metabolic rate more than continuous training does. Lets take a look into the two styles of working out.
Now, athletes use both continuous workouts and interval workouts in their training and so should you, but most the time for the average Joe, interval training gets put off to the side. Which is unfortunate because interval training will help you get fit faster. Both workouts will help increase your aerobic capacity, meaning… the ability to transport and use oxygen. Continuous training usually involves long distance running for a certain distance or time without taking breaks, while interval training involves high intensity bursts with short times of rest.
Studies have been done! Check this out! Australian scientists have done a comparison study on both interval and over-distance-workouts. Both workouts were done with the same average metabolic load. They found that interval training produced the highest levels of peak oxygen consumption, they also came to the conclusion that interval training was a more powerful stimulus for increasing aerobic fitness. Canadian studies found that interval training exercises built high levels of fitness quickly. (Journal of Science and Medicine in Sports 11: 287-290, 2008; Journal of Applied Physiology 98: 1985-1990, 2005)
So the reason I am so crazy about interval training is because it works! There is one drawback…Interval training can also be viewed as more unpleasant than you normal workout, but it is still worth it.
Interval training will help you get faster results, and will help you burn calories far after the workout is done with. Interval training is the answer you have been looking for. So how do you start your own interval training circuit? Where do you start a interval training circuit.
