Short vs Long Intervals

speedjunkie
speedjunkie Posts: 69
edited March 2015 in Training, fitness and health
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/fitness/ ... ort-121219

Would like to hear the opinion of the forum

If this is true, what´s the point of doing long intervals?

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  • yorkshireraw
    yorkshireraw Posts: 1,632
    Couple of things not clear in that -

    'the total workload performed was the same in both groups' - does that mean where one did 5 x 4 minutes (which actually seems a bit light - 4 x 10min or 6 x 5min would seem more standard?) i.e. 20 minutes work, the '30 second group' did 40 intervals?

    Doesn't say what else they were doing for the 10 weeks.

    If 1 group just did 4x5min every time for 10 wks you might expect a plateau to happen.
  • hypster
    hypster Posts: 1,229
    I thought HIIT sessions had to be full-on as well but the article seems to be saying:

    "Start with four to six bursts of 30 seconds going very hard (but not flat-out)"

    Is is just when you begin doing intervals and then move to flat-out when a bit fitter or all the time? Very confusing article in many ways.

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