subject: How To Boost Your Fitness [print this page] n order to achieve maximum results with your body when it comes to fitness you always need to keep your body guessing. One way of doing this is to play games that challenge your body. The following games are not for the beginner and they should be tried after you have at least a baseline fitness level. The less conditioned and out of shape you are, the more cautious you should be.
The first to boost your fitness level is through interval training. Interval training is incorporating intense spurts of exercise with periods of easy exercise. We will use running for an example. After you have warmed up, you could start out by running as fast as you can for 30 seconds, and than walk for a minute. After your heart rate has slowed down you would sprint for another 30 seconds as hard as you could. To sum it up, all you are doing is switching between high and low areas of intensity in your target zone.
When you first begin interval training be sure to keep the areas of high intensity short- 15 seconds is a good place to start. After you have completed the high intensity sessions, you need to follow it with at least 3 times as much active rest. Whatever you do, don't stop moving completely. So if you are running, sprint for a period of 15 seconds, and briskly walk for 45 seconds. As you progress you can increase the intensity by increasing the duration of time.
The next simple way to boost your fitness is by doing Fartleks. This funny word means speed play in Swedish. To simplify what a Fartlek is, lets just say that it is interval training without a measure of time or distance. You just do intervals whenever you feel like it. For example, you could set a goal to sprint to every other telephone pole on a run for however long you feel like doing it.
Uphill battles are always fun when it comes to life and exercise. Can you believe this is a great way to increase your fitness and can be used with walking, running, biking, or skating workouts? Uphill battles are doing the same workout that you would normally do on a flat surface on a hill. If you like to run try doing it on a hill. Find a steep incline and sprint up to the top and than down the same path that you just came. By doing this you will be rewarded with extra strength and stamina. You also burn twice as many calories by doing these types of drills.
Tempo workouts are the last type of workout that we will discuss. Tempo workouts are simply changing you pace at certain times during a workout. During a tempo drill you move at a challenging pace for 4-10 minutes. After you have done this return to a normal pace and than alternate doing this during your workout. In the beginning, be sure to keep these tempos to a short period of time and increase them over time. This type of training is especially helpful to people that are training for biking competitions.
