Comments on Interval Training

Time will tell if 'Fit Yummy Mummy' was on to something back in 2009. I spent 20 minutes doing an interval workout on the Precor after work today. It was difficult, but not impossible to sprint at 8 or 9 tenths for 2 minutes and recover at a lower effort for another 2 minutes. It really did use my full lung capacity and there were few comfy cruising points in the workout.

Afterwards it felt like my very life force had been sucked out. I just wanted to fall over and take a nap. About 3 hours later and I'm beginning to feel close to normal. Not sure I'd want to do one of these workouts before heading to the office. Might make for an unproductive morning. The calorie readout was on par with a similar amount of time on a constant resistance setting. I went ahead and entered this in MyFitnessPal. Hopefully the interval training theory (more than Fit Yummy Mummy subscribe to it) results outpace the nominal calories burned.

Here's your completely unrelated but funny pic for today.

(What?! She *IS* on the floor of a bathroom.)