Brilliant deduction

[Packard]

Here's the sequence:

When you are very young your parents take care of you.
When you are in your teens you excellent reflexes that that watches out for you.
A little older you loose the reflexes but gain strength.
A little older you get more endurance and lose some of the strength and some of the reflexes.
A little older your experience allows you to overcome the loss of strength, reflexes, and endurance.
And finally you gain wisdom and that is sufficient to carry you the rest of the way.

Always play to your strengths.

[ironwill]

Sounds like a voice of experience. Wisely spoken. I appreciate all the responses and helpful info. Kind of curious if anyone here has been able to use bodyweight exercises as the weightlifting portion of the full body workouts, or is buying a weight set inevitable......

[fitoverforty]

I've noticed when I run on the elliptical, I settle in with a HR bettween 155-160 which puts me in the upper half of anaerobic for my age group. Not sure if that gives me any indication, or even if that healthy, but I did see a chart somewhere in regards to VO2 max, and athletes that had incredibly high numbers. I remember Lance was way up on the list. I suppose I can do HIIT on the elliptical, can't I?

Again, I am no expert but can only go by my own experience. Yes, I believe you can do HIIT on the elliptical. It works basically the same way a treadmill would, just up your RPM's (haul %$##) for about 1 minute, then slow down to recover for a minute or two, then repeat. What I like to do is break it down to a mileage thing. For .25 mile I pick up speed and go fast enough to be really working (race pace), then the next .25 I recover and settle back into a good working pace then as soon as I begin that third .25 I go back to race pace, and recover next .25 I repeat this for 3 miles. You can break it down however works best for you. Don't forget to stretch afterwards, really important to prevent injury and soreness.

[ironwill]

Sounds interesting, I shall have to try it. My wife read Swanso's post and went out, warmed up, then sprinted once around the house, then fast walked to recovery, like two trips around then sprinted etc. I suppose thats like HIIT. I do bust out into sprints on the elliptical at times, not sure what comes over me, sudden burst of adrenaline I suppose. I want two things now; I want fat loss, but also need cardio heart/lungs for volleyball, so my new routine, as I have not picked it yet will have to incorporate both. My other hurdle is my work schedule; Wed. 10am-8pm Thurs. 5am-8pm Fri. 5am-8pm. Obviously sat-tues workouts are no problem, the other days it is! I appreciate the input.

[ironwill]

I have another really stupid question ( I suspect many will follow in that same category) in this posting: 5min Warm Up
1 minute as hard as you can alternated with 2 minutes at a half type pace making sure it's no so hard that you can't almost fully recover before the next interval x 3 cycles.
5 minutes at a very low intensity but not completely nothing.
20 minutes at the easy interval pace
3 minute cool down

Each week you increase the amount of intervals you do and nothing else.

When it says you increase the # of intervals, does that shorten the 20 minutes at the easy interval pace, or do you add the increased intervals to the total time? Thanks.

[swanso5]

add the increased intervals to the overall time

www.uponlinetraining.com

[ironwill]

add the increased intervals to the overall time

www.uponlinetraining.com

Hey Swanso...Thanks!