Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Your Pre-Thanksgiving workout

Today's is the ay before a great day! THE day of the year to be most Thankful for the things that God blesses all of us with...mostly our freedom and liberty!

Your workout for today is simple...interval cardio!

Here it is:
Start with a 5 min warm up on your favorite cardio machine (I like the bike or the Guantlet), getting your heart rate to 120 beats per minute (BPM).

Here are the rules of interval work...
1. increase your tension and speed on a bike, and increase your speed (steps per minute) on a guantlet for the recommended work loads listed below
2. try to double your speed and tension during the interval,
3. during recovery, lower the tension and speed to very slow so you can recover quickly
4. I listed the word "hard" below to describe #1 above and what it should feel like to work.

Once you are warm, let's start!
- 20 seconds hard, then recover to 120 BPM
then,
- 30 seconds hard, then recover to 120 BPM
then,
- 60 seconds hard, then recover to 120 BPM
then,
- 30 seconds hard, then recover to 120 BPM
then,
- 15 seconds hard, then recover to 120 BPM
then,
- 60 seconds hard, then recover to 120 BPM
then,
- 20 seconds hard, then recover to 120 BPM
then,

- 60 seconds hard, then recover to 120 BPM
then,

- 20 seconds hard, then recover to 120 BPM
then,

- 60 seconds hard,
then,
- Cool down 5 minute or until your heart rate is below 120 BPM

This entire workout will take at least 24 minutes and longer due to your ability to recover to 120 BPM between each interval.

Go get it!

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1 comment:

Grant Schwartz said...

Thanks for the tips and enjoy your Thanksgiving Dee! I need to use my HRM more.