Besides doing your short hard strength and interval work - outs you need to do easy
longer aerobic work - outs on a regular basis.
Not exact matches
During
long periods of moderate exercise,
aerobic metabolism does most of the
work, using oxygen to turn sugar into energy, water, and CO2.
This
work demonstrated that
aerobic glycolysis can reduce the energy demands associated with respiratory metabolism and stress survival and that, contrary to expectations and decades -
long assumptions, exponential growth at a constant rate can represent not a single metabolic / physiological state but a continuum of changing states characterized by different metabolic fluxes.
Running on empty usually makes
working out harder, but studies have shown that low - intensity
aerobic exercise in a fasted state — before breakfast, for example — can foster
long - term improvements in performance and weight loss.
Base run: A run at your natural pace that you can sustain for a
long time; meant to
work on keeping your
aerobic base and endurance.
As each round is three minutes
long, you will be
working your high - end
aerobic system as well as your anaerobic system while developing muscular endurance.
The Tabata protocol was developed by professor Izumi Tabata, who discovered that this 20 - second on / 10 seconds off
work - to - rest ratio yielded the best improvement in subjects» anaerobic capacity (think short duration / sprints) and
aerobic capacity (
long distance events).
Day 6 is pure lower body speed
work (the drills did not appreciably fatigue your nervous system), and day 7 is your PURE
aerobic,
long slow run of the week (This is where you increase your mileage the most as you progress).
Instead, for the triathlete who wants to avoid the skinny - fat look and get an amazing, muscular body, the training plan should incorporate strategically targeted high - intensity bursts of energy, a moderate amount of slightly
longer «tempo»
work, and finally, a low amount of
long aerobic training...
(amazing to see sometimes you have spent 10 - 20 % of a run above 148 HR if you don't keep an eye on it)-- Conduct regular MAF tests on both bike and run (I use watts for bike and pace for run)-- Keep blocks of anaerobic
work no
longer than 2 - 3 weeks then return to
aerobic work only.