High Intensity Interval Training

The science gets lost again

I wondered how the gym industry would handle it. Science says that workouts could be reduced to 1 minute 3 times a week and still be effective. HIT (or high intensity training) had the potential to crush an industry.

So how did they manage?

Sweat versus Strength

The Year of Sweat has morphed into the Year of Strength. It was a surprise to me. The idea behind the Year of Sweat was to increase the amount of physical activity in my life. I selected Sweat as the signature image because I wanted to change my attitude to this by-product of activity. It wasContinue reading “Sweat versus Strength”

Skipping lunacy

I’m too old to have taken part in the Jump Rope for Heart campaign that’s celebrating a mighty 30th anniversary this year. Thirty years ago puts me in my 20s and long past skipping. But, when my 2013 Year of Sweat began, I rushed out and purchased some equipment; nothing grand or large, just small stuffContinue reading “Skipping lunacy”

High-intensity interval training for lazy inclines

The mountain bike became part of the furniture after a V8 rear ended my little, and not-yet-paid-off, Datsun. All I had left from the insurance payout, after the bank took its bit, was enough to buy a push bike. By this time, I no longer had a permanent job and the banks were not givingContinue reading “High-intensity interval training for lazy inclines”