The Importance Of Highly Variable Cyclic Training

Cardio workouts are supposed to help people lose weight, maintain muscle tone, as well as prevent cardiovascular diseases. Unfortunately, most people doing these workouts are not getting the results that they wanted. Hence, they get discouraged and frustrated, and wind up quitting their exercise habit. For those people who do not quit, they become overworked and exhausted because they work out harder; thus, straining their muscles and getting harmful effects to their bodies.

The reason why most cardio exercise programs fail is because these methods are misunderstood not only by people who exercise, but also by health and fitness professionals such as doctors, fitness instructors, and sports trainers. For the longest time, all of them believe …show more content…
This is a physical fitness regimen, in which a person has many, varied paces of activity in a given amount of time. Remember that there are two factors that make this training very efficient: different paces of activity and different amount of time frames. In running, for example, one may be required to do short and quick bursts of exercises by running very fast in a short amount of time then followed by rest. Then it will be followed by steady running with a different time rate.

So how does highly variable cyclic training contribute to the improvement of your body? The answer is: It helps develop the heart 's ability to cope with your body 's varied demands on physical stress. If you do a "stop-and-go" exercise regimen, the heart pumps faster due to the quick burst of energy you expend when you do the activity. However, your heart rate also goes slower when you rest, which is called the recovery time. The regimen pushes your heart to its maximum pumping capacity and then allows it to return to its typical pumping pace. Just bear in mind not to overexert by prolonging rapid exercises beyond its required time limit to avoid damaging your heart. Compare the highly variable cyclic training to same rate endurance training. As you can see, steady state endurance trainers retain their heart rate because they do exercises with the same rate at an extended amount of time. It is surprising to know that some marathon runners and endurance road cyclists actually develop bradycardia, which is the slowing of heart rate. It is because the body is so attuned to chronic physical activity. Nevertheless, such long periods of constant exercise rate can be harmful to your heart if done in an extreme