Warning: This exercise routine involves exertion from sprinting.
If you've wondered about a way to stay in shape, but not spend one to three hours per day at an exercise activity there's a way, that's not so much a fad, but a comfortable way to exercise. The term “interval training” does come to mind, and this style of exercise, I can say, is a good technique for that person who will do the work, but wisely. This type of exercise only takes around 20 to 30 minutes per day and is not so high on the scale of pain-while-in-exercise routine. If you spend nearly up to an hour, you can maybe eat a bit more, and/or be in primo-shape. It takes me about 15 to 25 minutes to do five sets of 40-meter to 50-meter sprints. I'm lazy and only spend around twenty to thirty minutes.
Here is the method - think of exercise like a race; every race has an end, but the race is something the competitor does after he, or she trains for many days, months, or years. The great thing about this exercise is that once the sets are over, that is the five - thirty minutes is done, you really know, and feel that you've pushed hard and exerted yourself to a physical limit. Follow this outline and gauge your time for from 10 to 50 minutes:
- Think of your favourite exercise (sprints, weights, jogs, punch bag, push ups/sit ups, etc)
- Think of the week: five work days, and two weekend days
- Apply this number system to the seconds or minutes that you spend in one “set” of, for example, sprints
- Not everyone is a 100m sprinter, but who cannot sprint 40 to 50 m? Find a track, parking lot, or field, and sprint for 50 meters. Do this for five repetitions. After five “reps” rest for two, (five + two = seven) which is an application of rest in accordance to the weekly number system of days. Time how long it takes to run the 50 m, so you can rest for two reps of exactly that amount of time. Your priority is to rest after five reps for at least two reps; the rest gets you ready for the next set. If you are really tired, then for that set do three reps and rest for four.
- Do five sets of these reps, and then rest for two whole sets. When you do each rep go hard - not so hard you hurt yourself - enough so that you know you've almost reached your top speed, or your top lift ability, for example with weights.
- At the end, do a 100 m dash if you are so inclined
- Do it again the next day, and eat protein, high vegetables, don't overload on starch, mix in a bit of chicken or steak fat for the brain, and drink lots of water. This is a daily routine. Try to do it everyday, but don't feel bad if you miss a day, or days, whilst in the five days of the workweek. People get tired or sick, that is, unfortunately, a fact of life.
Happy exercises and God bless.
