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> There's quite the contrast between the way experienced athletes who already are very fit incorporate interval training long-term (often 1x/week) 1x/week? Whe
by 3131s 10y ago
> There's quite the contrast between the way experienced athletes who already are very fit incorporate interval training long-term (often 1x/week)
1x/week? Where are you getting that number from? For many athletes, their sport essentially is interval training (e.g. sprinting, tennis, American football).
As a pretty capable sprinter, I do something akin to interval training 4x/week, weight training 2x/week (one heavy day, one light), and then mobility and blood flow work whenever I can.
- glangdale 10y agoYou're right. I missed a great deal of context there, as I was thinking about the most familiar cases to me, where either (a) you're an endurance athlete whose interest is largely maintaining a huge cardio base (see the Mark Twight piece in the sibling comment) or (b) you're getting a ton of 'intermittent' work from your sport, like you say. Mentally I somehow but that kind of skill work in a different category from "interval" training but that's probably because I've never done an sport like sprinting or short-distance rowing/swimming/etc. Skill training for tennis or boxing or judo or BJJ or whatever doesn't feel like interval training even if it is intermittent and anaerobic... even when the round timer goes off at regular intervals in a 3:1 or 4:1 ratio.