Working back towards basketball means he's working back to being fully healthy — both involve weight training, proper nutrition, building
in recovery intervals, etc. — so it can be a two birds / one stone situation.
These 30 - second rest intervals also gives your heart a lot more benefit by incorporating more heart rate variability combined
with recovery intervals, which we already know is important for strengthening your heart maximally and one reason why steady state cardio is inferior to varied intervals.
Also, try alternating 15 - 20 second high intensity bursts where you jump as fast as you possibly can, followed by 15 - 20
second recovery intervals where you jump slowly to get ready for your next burst.
Mountain Biking - As you may have figured by now, I'm not a proponent of steady pace endurance exercise, but rather, highly variable intensity exercise that works with bursts of exertion followed
by recovery intervals.
Heavy training loads or shorter
recovery intervals increase the demand on the anaerobic energy pathways during exercise, which yields a greater EPOC effect during the post-exercise recovery period.
For example, a distance runner might use a 1: 0.5 - 1 ratio of work to rest, whereas a sprinter or power athlete would best be served by
longer recovery intervals.
Anaerobic Training refers to doing cardio workouts with intense short intervals of maximal efforts combined
with recovery intervals.
And just in case you're interested in what the actual workouts were — the volunteers were asked to take part in just 20 minute sessions of 8 second sprints with 12
second recovery intervals!
This 30 Minute Tredmill Interval workout will fly by with sprint and
recovery intervals for a High Intensity Cardio session.
Thus,
the recovery interval resembled modern ecological successions in terms of active selection on size and related life histories.
However you decide to time it, keep
your recovery interval between 50 and 100 percent of your active interval's duration.
Bullet proof your heart through short burst of exertion followed by periods of rest or
recovery intervals.
When you begin to extend your time, you will increase risk of injury as you lose form, get sloppy, and the overall contrast between «high intensity» interval and
recovery interval will disappear.
The pace in
your recovery interval should be so easy you'll think you are doing the cool - down portion of your workout.
You get the leg pumping exertion during the uphill climbs, while also getting the adrenaline rush of the downhill acting as
your recovery intervals.
For example, if the work interval was 2 minutes,
the recovery interval would 1 or 2 minutes.
With the ability to change the active and
recovery intervals, or the work to rest ratio, high - intensity interval training is appropriate for all athletes.
The recovery interval should be around 50 % and 100 % of the active interval in length.
The key is the length of your active and
recovery intervals.
One question that might come to mind is how to structure the active and
recovery intervals.
To keep HIIT workouts from getting stale you can vary the work /
recovery intervals.
To progress with HIIT you want to work towards increasing the length of your work intervals while decreasing the time of
your recovery intervals.
Recovery intervals are equal to or longer than the speed intervals.
Keep in mind that the most common mistake made with interval training is making
the recovery intervals too short.
Experiment with shorter and longer speed and
recovery intervals to find what works best for you.
Warm up for 5 minutes, and perform just a few alternating speed and
recovery intervals; 3 - 4 of each should be plenty and will give you a feel for it; finish with an easy cool down.