Breathless, how to?

By Carole Barrie on 29 April 2024

Breathless Session
This is designed as an easier introduction Sprint Interval Training (S.I.T.).  It varies from High Intensity Training (H.I.T.) by being shorter and getting to exhaustion quickly then taking longer to recover before the next round.  Warm up for 3 to 5 mins first to get breathy.   You can manage your own session by running up a hill, indoor cycling, battle ropes or similar til breathless.  Ideally you want to be breathless and your body needs to stop after 30 to 45 seconds, but sometimes you need to build so it might take slightly longer.  Recovery will tend to take at least twice as long as your 'sprint' and may take up to 3 mins.  Make sure you can breath with mouth closed before starting next sprint.   Repeat each session twice a week at most so you can fit around your usual weekly exercise and Tone.  Leave at least 48 hours between these sessions to allow for your usual weekly exercise and also recovery.  Do not do on same day as Tone so your body has replenished energy to fully commit to each type of exercise.  Session recordings are limited at the moment as my neural damage doesn't react well to speed at the moment.  However I wanted to provide the option, and I think this illustrates how not all types of exercise suit every body.