Interval Training
Need to Know
If you want to maximize your workouts and bump up your calorie burn, add interval training to your fitness program. Interval training simply means alternating the intensity during a workout between hard and easier periods, using either speed or hills to bump up the intensity. Incorporate these tips into your workouts a few times a week to make the most of your time working out and improve your fitness level.
Checklist
- Cost: N/A.
- Time Commitment: Aim to incorporate intervals into your workouts 1-2 times per week.
- Location Limitations: N/A.
- Special Equipment Required: Padded shorts are recommended.
- Potential Pitfalls: N/A
- Boredom Rating: You can work intervals into any workout, so boredom is easily beaten!
- Potential Injury Risk: N/A.
- Level of Fitness Required: As long as you make sure that you allow your body to recover between each period of high intensity, interval training can be done by individuals of most fitness ranges.
- Calories Burned (based on a 150 pound woman exercising at a moderate intensity for 30 minutes): N/A.
- Body Parts Worked: Dependent on the workout.
- False Myths: Some think that interval training is something that only hardcore athletes do, but it’s actually a very simple way to up the intensity of your workouts.
Fitness A - Z
- 15 Minute Workout
- Abs
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- Arm Exercises
- Back Toning Tips
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- Bad Technique
- Butt-Firming Exercises
- Dancing
- Fitness Myths
- Flat Ab Moves
- Glutes
- Indoor Cycling
