{"id":1030,"date":"2010-10-21T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastpthfprod.wpengine.com\/fitness-blog\/bid\/53746\/Interval-Training"},"modified":"2023-10-13T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:00:43","slug":"interval-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/interval-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Interval Training"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cardio training on treadmill<\/strong><\/em>
\nBy Susan Patton, Personal Trainer<\/strong><\/em>Are you suffering through long steady bouts on the treadmill?\u00a0 Have you found yourself falling asleep on the elliptical as your body goes into auto pilot?\u00a0 Let me tell you something, if you\u2019re bored, so is your body! Time to look and feel alive, inside and out with interval training.Interval training consists of short burst of high intensity followed by a recovery period.\u00a0 The process is repeated throughout the duration of the total workout, which should always first include a low intensity warm-up period of about 5 minutes and a cool-down period of 5 about minutes.You may only be able to start out doing about 10 minutes of interval training, with your warm-up and cool down, may only add up to 20 minutes total.\u00a0 And if you\u2019re used to putting in something like 60 minutes, this may seem like you\u2019re cheating yourself.\u00a0 This is most certainly not the case.\u00a0 In most areas of fitness, it is the quality of the workout, not the quantity.\u00a0 Say your boss gave you 4 hours of work to do and you got it done in 2 hours? That would make you pretty effective and efficient (and perhaps invite some snide remarks from your co-workers.)\u00a0 It\u2019s essentially the same idea in fitness. You can get the same, and perhaps more, benefit from a high intensity 20 minute workout as you can from a lackluster 60 minute workout.\u00a0 Interval training is one way to achieve this efficiency.Since everyone\u2019s maximum intensity levels differ, you should gauge yourself on a rating scale of 1 \u2013 10: 1 being almost at rest, 5 at a jog and 10 at a full out sprint.\u00a0 After your warm up, bring your self up to about a 7 for 15 \u2013 30 seconds, then back down to a 5 for a minute or 2.\u00a0 Repeat this process for 10 minutes then begin a cool down.\u00a0 As time progresses and you become more fit, increase the intensity of your maximum interval as well as the duration, decrease the amount of recovery and increase the total time for the intervals beyond 10 minutes.Yes, you will feel uncomfortable for those 15 \u2013 30 seconds, and it\u2019s impossible to expect you to endure a workout of substantial time, too far removed from your comfort zone. But, you can\u2019t increase your fitness without bringing yourself out of your comfort zone for a period of time.\u00a0 That\u2019s the beauty of intervals.\u00a0 You\u2019re only out of your comfort zone for a limited amount of time.\u00a0 And in that time, you begin to allow your body to reach a new level and increase your lung capacity.\u00a0 As you do that, you also increase your body\u2019s capability and efficiency for processing oxygen, a must have for your muscles!And just think, if you don\u2019t have to spend 60 minutes on the treadmill anymore that leaves you more time to get out on the gym floor and build some lean muscle, your body\u2019s number 1 defense against body fat! (See Cardio vs. Strength Training<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So next time you see the person next to you jack up the intensity and make all that noise for 30 seconds or so, they aren\u2019t crazy, they\u2019re interval training! Stay healthy my friends!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Cardio training on treadmill By Susan Patton, Personal TrainerAre you suffering through long steady bouts on the treadmill?\u00a0 Have you found yourself falling asleep on the elliptical as your body goes into auto pilot?\u00a0 Let me tell you something, if you\u2019re bored, so is your body! Time to look and feel alive, inside and out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 11:11:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastpointehealthandfitness.com\/gym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}