If your clinician advises a more intense cardio workout with a higher heart rate than tai chi can offer, you may need
something more aerobic as well.
I was considering for a month to just do running 4 times a week &
something more aerobic on the other 2 to get the thigh weight down before returning to the classes as I heard this might slim my thighs out a bit first.
Not exact matches
Over the last few years, a bunch of studies have built the case that
aerobic exercise does
something to keep your brain in good working order as you age — or perhaps
more accurately, it does several good things for your brain.
During the core training season I like doing a mixture of
aerobic to weight to intervals to sports - specific (
something like 70-10-10-10) but if we were to blow this up over the course of the year, I would do: 2 - 3 month
aerobic base building with a bit of low - intensity skill training, 1 month skill (with a bit of hypertrophy), 1 month hypertrophy (with a bit of skill), and then 1 month focusing
more on high - end metabolic training (30 anaerobic 70
aerobic).
But for an ultramarathon, you do want to become
more fat adapted, so tailoring your diet to
something that looks a lot
more like the TWT will help you bring that
aerobic base to a much higher level.
Regardless of whether you're
more alert mentally in the morning, the fact that your temperature tends to be lower means that the best type of exercise to do in the morning (if you're going to exercise) is
something easy and light, such as a brisk
aerobic walk, an easy swim or some yoga.