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I have been reading many articles on training and think that they cause more questions than they answer.
If push ups should not be done to failure because the effects of fatigue are worse than the benefits of push to failure then does that theory transfer to cardio and H.I.I.T. Should we be pushing our sprints to the maximum every time or should we be sprinting (or whatever cardio your doing) at a speed below maximum but within the anerobic zone and sprint for less time than our maximum. This would prevent fatigue, and only push ourselves to 95% once a week. The Kenyans train there olympic runners like this, 11 easy runs/week, and one at 95%. Although this is aerobic exercise could it work for anerobic.
How many sets of exercises should we do? if 3 sets is enough to stimulate muscle growth and doing 6 sets does not double the rate of muscle growth then why do 6 sets. Does this sort of theory transfer from power lifting to cardio exercise. Doing 3 sets of exercise would be enough to cause improvement in the anerobic energy pathways.
Putting these theorys together means that all my training has been far harder than it had to be. Instead of killing ourselves everyday we should be taking it easy.
Cardio exercise 12 times/week. Once for about 95% of our maximum distance or time the rest of the time only aiming for 60% distance or time. We should only do 3 sets at a time.
I'm gonna be superfit just by doing 3 sprints at 60% of my maximum sprint distance 11 times/week, and one hard day.
If push ups should not be done to failure because the effects of fatigue are worse than the benefits of push to failure then does that theory transfer to cardio and H.I.I.T. Should we be pushing our sprints to the maximum every time or should we be sprinting (or whatever cardio your doing) at a speed below maximum but within the anerobic zone and sprint for less time than our maximum. This would prevent fatigue, and only push ourselves to 95% once a week. The Kenyans train there olympic runners like this, 11 easy runs/week, and one at 95%. Although this is aerobic exercise could it work for anerobic.
How many sets of exercises should we do? if 3 sets is enough to stimulate muscle growth and doing 6 sets does not double the rate of muscle growth then why do 6 sets. Does this sort of theory transfer from power lifting to cardio exercise. Doing 3 sets of exercise would be enough to cause improvement in the anerobic energy pathways.
Putting these theorys together means that all my training has been far harder than it had to be. Instead of killing ourselves everyday we should be taking it easy.
Cardio exercise 12 times/week. Once for about 95% of our maximum distance or time the rest of the time only aiming for 60% distance or time. We should only do 3 sets at a time.
I'm gonna be superfit just by doing 3 sprints at 60% of my maximum sprint distance 11 times/week, and one hard day.
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