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"sprint session" refers to a short and intense period of focused work or activity, often in a team or group setting. It involves concentrated efforts to achieve specific goals within a fixed timeframe.
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Again, if it's your first
sprint session in years you need to start way easier than you think.
Follow the workout with a good
sprint session of fast running for one minute, alternating with jogging for one minute, for a total of 20 minutes.
Adding 5 - 50
yard sprint sessions into the weekly training routine is also a great way to boost top speed.
Rillinger also suggests adding more resistance during
quick sprint sessions: «When you have momentum, you can handle more resistance than at the beginning of the sprint.
It can be easy to get stuck in a rut when it comes to HIIT, churning through the same set of
sprints every session until you dread it more than a foam rolling session after leg day.
These repeats help you build both strength and stamina, challenging you to work harder with
each sprint session.
For example, in my program (which you can get for free), Body Fat Blasting Boot Camp, there is one workout that includes about 5 exercises and
a sprint session.
I'll tell you right now, my group classes are 40 minutes,
my sprint sessions are 20 - 30 minutes, my workouts are about 50 minutes.
The good news is that it only requires two hours a week of walking around, one mini-strength workout a week lasting less than 10 minutes, one complete strength workout a week of 30 minutes and
a sprint session every 7 to 10 days.
I weight train 3 - 4 days a week, while doing cardio at least 6 times a week (2
sprint sessions 4 walking sessions to help increase lipolysis).
You could do a light jog before
a sprint session for example.
Sprinting makes the body keep burning fat even after
the sprint session has been completed.
-- Type of exercise / energy system used: an aerobic session would take longer to recover than a sprint session
I like to do one
sprint session, one full - body HIIT and 1 or 2 full body strength circuit training sessions per week.
Anyway, unfortunately I injured my knee running a year and a half ago (specifically sprinting — it hurt the day after
a sprint session and never got better — but I'm guessing it was a combination of sprints and slower).
If you're just doing lots of walking, lifting once or twice a week, and throwing in
a sprint session every now and then, you'll probably be fine underneath the Primal carb curve.