What is a recommended workout schedule for an entire week if you want to
alternate high intensity cardio with strength training?
Not exact matches
This describes exercise that
alternates between
high and low
intensity, and is a favoured technique to boost
cardio endurance and burn calories.
Besides the new form of
cardio called
High Intensity Interval training (
alternating sprints and jogs) which I talked about in another post, there's another form of
cardio that is also a great alternative to long, boring
cardio which makes use of your own bodyweight.
To be sure, HIIT
cardio and circuits are loosely based on the same principle of
alternating high - and low -
intensity bouts of training, but only the Tabata protocol has the benefits shown in the study.
If you've been paying attention to the best ways to speed up fat loss and make fitness gains in less time, you probably
alternate bouts of
high -
intensity cardio with short recovery periods.
First do a 5 - minute warm - up, then
alternate one minute of
high -
intensity cardio with two - minutes of moderate recovery.
The short bursts of time turns the game into interval
cardio — an
alternating protocol of
high intensity work and rest — that's been proven to burn more fat than traditional, steady - state
cardio.
How you do this workout is to
alternate short 1 - minute bursts of
high intensity cardio work in between weight training sets.
It has become the most popular fitness advice: ditch the hour - long, low
intensity cardio for a 20 minute
high intensity interval training (HIIT) workout in which you
alternate short periods — from 30 to 60 seconds at maximum
intensity follow by the same duration or longer the recovery period.
This is my personal favorite fat - burning strategy, even more preferred over interval training which involves
alternating high -
intensity cardio with low -
intensity cardio for set periods of time.
Now, I
alternate this kind of low impact workout with my
higher intensity cardio workouts (spinning / running) and aim for about two Megaformer or Pilates - type workouts per week.
According to the concept of HIIT, your work out should
alternate between
high and moderate
intensity cardio.
For example, you perform 20 minutes of
cardio and
alternate between one - minute
high intensity «work» intervals and one minute lower
intensity «recovery» intervals.