Endurance

by Jamie V.

Training to build cardiovascular endurance can be a complicated endeavor. Knowing how long and at when intensity to maintain during a workout can be difficult to decipher, especially for beginners. Knowing that building endurance can be done a variety of ways will help hasten results and increase endurance capacity. A recent study on the Training Effects on Endurance Capacity (Comparison Between Continuous and Interval Training) found a strong positive correlation between interval training and endurance capacity in comparison to continuous training (increasing the intensity of a cardiovascular workout until exhaustion). After 15 weeks of training (3x/week), subjects training with intervals (10s. on and 20s. off x10 sets) showed a greater increase in endurance capacity versus those who did continuous training (working incrementally till exhaustion). In a short amount of time, the results were great…true X Gym style!