This was what I was training for last month, to be able to do high intensity interval training (hiit-training).
I “chose” one of the hiit-variants, tabata-training. The good thing, you only needs 4 minutes a day to get better results than 60 minutes of cardio. The bad, it’ll probably kill you in 2 minutes.
The training is like this: you go all out for 20 seconds. Then rest, completely rest for 10 seconds. Then you do 20 seconds of full power again. Until you’ve done 8 sets, totalling 4 minutes. And after a week or so, not only will your cardio-performance will improve (giving you larger lung capacity) as well as your anaerobic performance (good for catching the bus)
Nice theory, but in practice, after one month of training and able to do 60 minutes of cardio and 20 minutes of weight training, I only manage to do 3 real sets of “all out”. The rest of the 5 sets, I could only cheat out by lowering the intensity or doing 10-15 all out.
Let’s see how I’ll improve this month.
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