Posted on 10/07/2024 10:05:37 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Sports scientists have found that just three weeks of high intensity sprint training can have a significant impact on elite athlete endurance.
The team worked with nine professional boxers over six weeks to assess how cycle-based sprint training can improve resistance to fatigue and change how mitochondria (the batteries of the body) behave to enhance endurance performance.
Using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) monitors in the University's Human Performance Lab, researchers measured oxygen consumption in athletes' muscles.
They found that the training improved mitochondria activity by an average of 160% at the point of fatigue, which resulted in the elite athletes being able to cycle for 8% longer against an increasing workload.
The sprint training was carried out using commercially available exercise bikes that the athletes had access to, with the research team monitoring heart rate to measure exercise intensity.
Over the three-week period, athletes performed three sprint sessions per week consisting of three 30 second bouts of high intensity effort and 60 seconds of rest.
The project was led by sports scientists John Babraj and Andrew Usher who also work as lecturers on Abertay's sports science degree programs.
Babraj said the research offered further evidence that sprint training is highly effective for elite professional athletes across a range of sports and can be used to enhance performance and reduce fatigue without the need for expensive equipment.
He added, "Work to enhance recovery times and delay the onset of fatigue should form an integral part of any elite athlete's training schedule and while this work was carried out with boxers, it could equally be applied across a wide variety of sports. The use of NIRS monitors has been key to understanding the full range of benefits that sprint training can have when athletes are training."
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That means a lot more energy is available to cells to properly do their work. It also means they use up that much more energy (blood sugar).
Folks, we need to do vigorous exercise.
I tried this, and all I got was Planter fasciitis
Maybe the wrong shoes?
Have you tried Hokas?
LOL- and shin splints!!!
I work out 7 days a week; hour and a half to two hours a day. Run 7 days a week, run/swim 3 days a week, run/lift three days a week.
I incorporated some sprinting into my runs, used to be known as Fartlek running, for a while. But i didn’t develop platar fascitis or shin splints rather sciatica which has slowed my workouts a bit.
Ironically during covid, when all the gyms were closed here in the craphole known as NY, i would run 6 miles a day and finish with about 3 or 4 150 meter sprints on the road.
You can get paid to do that.
Get a job stocking shelves overnight at Walmart.
You can get 6.5 hours of high intensity exercise depending on the aisle assignment.
I was doing 100 yards sprints, and getting quicker until I pushed a little too hard and did something to my hip. I can still run and all, but I haven’t gone all out like I was months ago.
Central Park is a nice place to run.
I use a local road with a 600 ft climb for my sprint training. Mid 60s and I’m far more likely to get hit and killed by a car than die from a heart attack ;-)
i’m in Westchester County
Getting there can be the warm up.
I would agree with the premise. But…if you are not in good shape to start with, a regime like this could kill you.
One step at a time.
You reach a certain level degenerative arthritis and vigorous exercise becomes difficult.
What you mean, "we", Paleface?
What you mean, “we”, Paleface?
“The only persons who should use “we” are a woman with child or man with a tapeworm.”
Mark Twain
Most over-60s should not try this!
Those over 60s with excellent cardiovascular health should work up to this—slowly!
Good tip, thanks.
After an accident I ended up buying an elliptical to stay in shape.
And my knees are no longer up to sprinting.
Wonder if doing it on an elliptical would provide similar benefits...?
LOL- nah...to old at this point
I get all my exercise by pressing my luck don’t want to get hit by a car.
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