Interval Training and Drills

My first week back at work and hitting it hard like I've been a caged Panther!

Who said a good rest wasn't productive!!  Yes whilst I was away I did exercise but the rest of each day was spend either laying on my back or laying on my front and getting myself a good dose of Vitamin D and reading, constantly expanding my fitness knowledge.

Here is something that we did when away without any training equipment and got a great CV workout.
Shuttle runs:- We found a car park with the lines for parking spaces and ran 'suicide drills' - Called so because they become Pure Evil as you progress through.
So you start at line 1, run to line 2 then back, run to line 3 then back to line 1, run to line 4 and back to line 1 and so forth until you have run shuttle drills right to the last line.  In our case there were 20!!  we were 'cream crackered' and cranked out 1/2 mile at a high intensity.
If you are feeling super fit you can also then work down back to your start so run to line 20 and back to line 1, line 19, 18, 17 ....  It's tough!

So on my return many of my clients are in preparation for their holidays so I am hitting them hard with Interval Training.  This is by far the best and most productive way to lose BodyFat. I incorporate so many varieties of interval training in my One-One PT, Bootcamps and Spinning sessions and the results speak for themselves.
 
Interval training can be done in many forms from hard/slow cardio machine work e.g Treadmill, Bike, Rowing, Skipping,  to Tabata drills and Strength Resistance work.

We have done the lot this week and all I have heard is moans and groans!! music to my ears!  this is because it is tough, it's a challenge but it is OH SO effective.

So push hard for a selected time span, recover for half the time, the same length of time or longer if need be, then hit it hard again.  Im talking seconds here not minutes because you really need to push as hard as you can ' Maximum Effort' then go really slow or do nothing in the recovery phaze so that you 'DO Recover'
 Why workout at a steady state for an hour when you can work twice as hard in half the time doing intervals and continue to burn even more energy for many hours that follow your workout.

A good measure to use is ' If you can do more than 3 interval sessions a week without a diminished effort then you are not working hard enough IN those sessions'

Give it a whirl and add some different dimentions to your training and see the weight drop off!  (Obviously supported by the KEY element - A Lean n Green Healthy nutrition plan)