Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Is there any value in moderate-intensity cardio?

For the past 3-4 months, I've been jogging 5 km about 5 days a week, at a fairly high intensity (though of course not as high as the explosive bursts that interval training requires, hence "moderate"). I'm pretty wiped by the end. As far as I can tell, my times haven't improved -- though it's a bit hard to know, since the weather has been getting progressively hotter. That's a bit discouraging.

Supposedly the right way to go about this is lots of low-intensity cardio (70% max HR) with occasional HIIT. But is there any benefit to the kinds of workouts I've been doing?

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