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Workout Instructions: Decreasing High Intensity Intervals
Published 4 days ago • 4 min read
This tweak of a classic high-intensity interval session is described in the work of Vaccari and colleagues (1-2). Vaccari found that high intensity intervals with decreasing effort duration results in greater time at >90% of VO2 max than traditional long intervals and short intervals. Why could this added time above 90% of VO2 max be important? For years, we've assumed that performing high intensity intervals at an intensity higher than 90% of VO2 max is beneficial to adaptation. But we...
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