Interval workouts aren’t just for serious athletes. If your physical activity routine gets boring or if the challenge disappears, pick it up and slow it down in repeated intervals.
Anyone can get more health benefits and burn more calories—and have more fun—by alternating light, moderate, and more strenuous activity. Just remember: warm up slowly, cool down slowly at the end. Skip the urge to push too hard, too often.
To make any activity more demanding, move longer, move more, or push harder.
- Do it your way. If you’re a beginner, slow walk, then walk, then slow walk. Work up at your pace.
- Turn up your current routine. If you circle the track or the neighborhood, step faster every two to three minutes, then slow down to less demanding action. An up-and-down course makes an interval workout on a bicycle easier.
- Program your fitness equipment for interval training if the equipment provides this computerized feature. Try the uphill feature.
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