Is it possible to accomplish this by just doing a couple of
short sprint workouts per week and doing hour - long walks or bike rides on the other days?
Not exact matches
The
workouts — which beam into your home live or on demand — focus on activities like high - intensity interval training, which includes
short sprints followed by exercises on a mat.
The optimal number of repetitions appears to be just two, so
workouts based on supramaximal
sprints can be kept very
short without compromising on the results.»
The HIIT routine is relatively
short, but is quite challenging and because it involves changing the intensity throughout the
workout, it burns a lot of calories.It can be done using any type of cardio
workout like
sprints, elliptical, biking, etc..
Short, intense
sprints followed by resting periods might be spiking your heart rate up and down and not technically burning as many calories during the exercise, but that's all offset by the benefits an intense
workout brings to your body.
Anaerobic
workouts include weight lifting,
sprints, or anything that requires
shorter bursts of high intensity activity.
Short and uber intense, CrossFit
workouts combine gymnastics,
sprints, plyometrics and Olympic weightlifting for an all - around kick - butt challenge.
HIIT
workouts, like
sprints or a cycling class, combine
short bursts of all - out activity with
short periods of rest.
In the
short term, a
workout consisting of four 30 - second all - out cycling
sprints activated mitochondrial biogenesis in the skeletal muscle of human subjects in one study.
Snatches, swings, clean and presses combined with
sprints and bodyweight moves can give anyone a killer
workout in a
short time.
My current routine includes daily meditation, gentle yoga classes, walking, strength training, and occasional
sprints and high - intensity
workouts of
short (but killer) duration.
Since I didn't have much time left in the week for my own
workouts, once or twice a week I would do a very
short but very intense
workout for my own benefit, usually
sprints at the track or «hill repeats» of 2 - 3 minutes each on the bike.
Then do two
sprint workouts a week: one
short and super fast (8 - 10 x 10 - 20 seconds), the other 6 - 7 x 60 - 80 seconds.
If you need a powerful metabolic
workout that burns calories at the same time (plus it is quick because it all happens in a
short period of time) you should opt for a hill
sprint workout.