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Getting in shape Fast!
- Thread starter Blogfool
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Ok, about last summer 2009 I quit all my bad habits. This included smoking, drinking, eating poorly and bad rest. Ok I have been since then eating well, no junk food at all. I have been excercising since then, but I had a hiatus in the winter for two months or so. So I have come from a very bad start.
I run every other day about 20-30 minutes with a average heart rate of 160. Im 64 Kilos, 182 cm tall and 20 years old. So what I will be needing is the best endurance I can get. Im not totally out of the bushes, but Im not that well in shape either. I will need some muscle excercise too, but I wont stress that much about that and try and get the best endurance I can get
Sry about the grammer and incoherence, but Im just so excited to hit this hard and go all the way.
So any advice on how to boost / better my cardio I think its called and endurance
P.S. I do have a heart rate watch so if that can be integrated with any former knowledge thats great.
I run every other day about 20-30 minutes with a average heart rate of 160. Im 64 Kilos, 182 cm tall and 20 years old. So what I will be needing is the best endurance I can get. Im not totally out of the bushes, but Im not that well in shape either. I will need some muscle excercise too, but I wont stress that much about that and try and get the best endurance I can get
Sry about the grammer and incoherence, but Im just so excited to hit this hard and go all the way.
So any advice on how to boost / better my cardio I think its called and endurance
P.S. I do have a heart rate watch so if that can be integrated with any former knowledge thats great.
Your best bet for quickly increasing you endurance is intervals. Do a search on HIIT but lower intensity intervals will help as well. Even long distance endurance athletes do intervals now as it's pretty well established they're a much quicker way to increase both anaerobic and aerobic capacity than simply running more.
I don't believe you can increase endurance quickly. All the triathlete coaches I know instruct their clients to spend many hours (10+) doing primarily long steady distance (LSD) workouts. Intervals and HIIT are generally incorporated into triathlon training after the client has a strong base of LSD training. Triathlons are all about endurance; speed is generally irrelevant in a triathlon.
I don't believe you can increase endurance quickly. All the triathlete coaches I know instruct their clients to spend many hours (10+) doing primarily long steady distance (LSD) workouts. Intervals and HIIT are generally incorporated into triathlon training after the client has a strong base of LSD training. Triathlons are all about endurance; speed is generally irrelevant in a triathlon.
Well, I understand that I am not going to gain anything signifigant or become a world class atlhete.
So what is my best bet onto maintaining a increasing my fitness? Is it HIIT or LSD training?
Whoa, just came back from running with HIIT method. It knocked the ***** out of me! It was great. I ran 5 min warmup, 1 min I ran relatively fast and 30 sec light jogging. I looked back and my heart rate was higher in the 30 sec intervals.
I kind of kept hitting walls.
Would it be better to just push regardless of that feeling, is that the spirit of the training, like. Or should I keep slowing down as I feel so?
I kind of kept hitting walls.
Would it be better to just push regardless of that feeling, is that the spirit of the training, like. Or should I keep slowing down as I feel so?