They're what drive
you during higher intensity efforts.
Not exact matches
Remember that focusing on maintaining a
high level of
intensity during your workout is more beneficial than simply lengthening the time of your workout but not giving full
effort.
So you go 5 minutes hard, 2 and a half minute easy and sure, it's not as quite as hard as you'd be going
during to a 10 to 30 second
effort but this kinda like lower level,
high intensity interval training with 2:1 work to rest ratio.
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.
Just keep in mind that while beta - alanine is effective at improving exercise capacity
during short bouts of
high intensity effort, it doesn't appear to improve performance
during exercise lasting less than 60 - seconds.
Because HIIT is so
high intensity your body's need for oxygen
during the
effort means you create an oxygen shortage.
The maximum
efforts during the
high -
intensity part of the workout will get your heart rate up and help burn the maximum amount of fat in the process.
Using endurance exercise as a model of physiologic stress, the functional impact of ketosis
during sustained
high intensity effort was investigated in
high performance athletes (n = 22).
Bear in mind that the body can and will take longer to recover from
high intensity short duration cycling than low
intensity long duration cycling as far as limit strength is concerned - energy substrates are what are depleted
during long distance low
intensity cycling, and energy substrates are NEVER THE LIMITING FACTOR IN MAXIMUM
EFFORT LIFTS.