Training in high temperatures requires a greater expenditure of energy, which can compromise the quality of the individual workout as well
as subsequent workout sessions.
Not exact matches
If you don't have a physically active job or aren't able to spend lots of time on your feet during the day, this intensity is important for training the body to use fat
as a fuel, especially for individuals who compete in events lasting more than two hours.Although it will be difficult to keep your intensity low on these days, if you've decided that you have lots of time on your hands and the type of training you want to do is primarily aerobic (vs. interval based training), then performing your endurance efforts at a higher intensity than Zone 2 will reduce the effectiveness of your harder
workouts on
subsequent days by fatiguing muscle and depleting carbohydrate stores in fast - twitch muscle.
However, the main measure of whether a
subsequent session is physiologically more difficult than a previous one is not your muscle tiredness or your perceived exertion, but rather measures of metabolic output such
as where your heart rate stands relative to the aerobic threshold in both
workouts.
In the
workout after I get 12 reps with 100 pounds, let's increase the load to 105 pounds and imagine that I am able to get only 8 reps. I'll keep using 105 pounds during
subsequent workouts until I hit 12 reps, and then I'll again increase the load dropping the number of reps.. This is written
as» 1 x 8 - 12.»
On
subsequent days, we squeezed in a couple of matches of tennis, a Thai massage (for me) and a
workout at the gym (for him),
as well
as an entertaining karaoke night at Quantum nightclub.