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November 28, 2005
The Fourth Great Exercise Secret For Building An Attack-Proof Heart
The fourth great secret to building an attack-free heart is to discover how to manipulate exercise duration in the proper manner.
You can also increase the challenge of your working by changing the duration of your exercise, but in the opposite direction of most exercisers. As your level of fitness improves, you need to decrease the duration of your workout. In other words, you cover the same distance in shorter and shorter times. You will find that by gradually shortening your intervals, it gets easier to increase the intensity with each session, and increasing intensity will continue to increase your capacity.
During your rest periods, don’t stop entirely but keep moving at a gentle pace as you recover. Light activity keeps your blood circulating to replenish your muscles’ depleted energy stores and removes accumulated lactic acid wastes. Studies show that your muscles recover faster with light activity than with complete immobility. For instance, if you sprint during your interval, you will keep moving at a walk or gentle trot for your rest period. You have a natural inclination to do this. If you listen to your body, you will want to keep moving after a sprint to “walk it off.”
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Posted by james at November 28, 2005 6:01 AM