Training All of the Muscle?

Today I ran 20 minutes of random length intervals, Speedplay, at the suggestion of The 20 Minute Fitness Solution. I ran on the local high school track doing two 400 meter intevals as the longest and a bunch of 8 second run / 12 second jog cycles with a few sprints of varying length thrown in.

While I may just be enjoying the efficiency of these short, high intensity workouts and benefitting from the novelty and lack of adaptation due to my inexperience, I’m beginning to suspect there is something else going on here as they feel very natural to me. They are short, hard and fun.

It may be, as Clarence Bass speculates here that these high intensity intervals bring a higher percentage of muscle fibers into play- including fast and slow twitch fibers. If, as I suspect, I’m not a gifted endurance athelete, but I am strong, I may benefit more from training that recruits the stronger side of my muscular abilities.

Author: James Vornov

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