I’ve always personally preferred intense training over long-term endurance training personally for health benefits. Here i an article from NYTimes quoting its use to promote anti-aging as well.
- Researchers say that you should be able to maintain your muscles as you age, including the muscle enzymes needed for good athletic performance, and you should be able to maintain your ability to exercise for long periods near your so-called lactic threshold, meaning you are near maximum effort.
- “Train hard and train often,” said Hirofumi Tanaka, a 41-year-old soccer player and exercise physiologist at the University of Texas.
- Dr. Tanaka said he means doing things like regular interval training, repeatedly going all out, easing up, then going all out again. These workouts train your body to increase its oxygen consumption by allowing you to maintain an intense effort.
- High performance is really determined more by intensity than volume,” he added. “Sometimes, when you’re older, something has to give. You can’t have both so you have to cut back on the volume. You need more rest days.”
- hmmm I like this one: She said, ‘Mom, if your workout didn’t hurt, you didn’t work hard enough,’ ” Ms. Dyson said.
Decline with Age
- The reason people become slower, though, is that oxygen consumption declines with age.
- In large part that is because, as has long been known, the maximum heart rate steadily falls by about seven to eight beats per minute per decade. As a result, the heart cannot pump as much blood at maximum effort.
