1/26/2024 0 Comments Interval training clock![]() It’d feel really hard, but you probably wouldn’t be getting any better at jumping high. What would happen if you were to jump as high as you can 50 times in a row? By the end, you wouldn’t be jumping very high. It means actually jumping as high as you can, or close to it. That doesn’t only mean trying to jump as high as you can. To get the best results, you can practice jumping as high as possible. One example: training vertical jumps to get better at vertical jumps. If you have to vary from them, are you getting the best results from all your hard work? Why do we break work into sets in the first place? A “set” of an exercise is just a chunk of work with a specific intent – exercise technique, reps, weight, and tempo for a set are all programmed by your coach for a certain reason. Problem 1 – Not understanding the purpose of rest Let’s look at some of the problems that come up with rest periods. The point: Your rest periods have a purpose, but that purpose often gets confused or lost. You can’t do all the work you need to do at once so you break it up into “work intervals” called “sets” and take rest between them. ![]() It’s just part of the recipe.What about strength training? We all know rest periods are fundamental to interval training. ![]() Strategic rest allows enough recovery for you to do each interval at the same intensity. Those intervals are supposed to be at a power output you can only sustain for a short time. If you’ve ever done a Tabata session, you know you can’t sustain that rate of work for very long. Why not just go that speed for 3 or 4 min straight? That’d be harder, and driven athletes tend to believe something that’s harder is more productive. ![]() Why does that 10s rest even exist? It’s not much. The famous Tabata workout: 8 rounds of 20s hard work and 10s of rest. ![]()
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