Thread: Cardiovascular Health

I'll bump this for you because I might begin recommending that you wale away at a punching bag again

Originally Posted by m11

I'll bump this for you because I might begin recommending that you wale away at a punching bag again

So what are you looking to improve? Anaerobic endurance? Sprinting speed?

IIRC there have been studies pointing out that aerobic exercise can hurt a person's anaerobic endurance but anaerobic exercise may help a person's aerobic endurance. If you want to build anaerobic endurance, I would say do intervals.

Is there any specific reason you want to improve your anaerobic endurance? Is it for a sport or a job or something? It's generally best to use intervals and intensities that are close to what you see in those activities.

Originally Posted by gtbmed

So what are you looking to improve? Anaerobic endurance? Sprinting speed?

IIRC there have been studies pointing out that aerobic exercise can hurt a person's anaerobic endurance but anaerobic exercise may help a person's aerobic endurance. If you want to build anaerobic endurance, I would say do intervals.

Is there any specific reason you want to improve your anaerobic endurance? Is it for a sport or a job or something? It's generally best to use intervals and intensities that are close to what you see in those activities.

For the Marine Corps my friend.

Take creatine.

I don't know if lifting will help your endurance. It will certainly help speed if you build strength and work on neuromuscular efficiency and turn it into power, but endurance I do not know.

Originally Posted by T_man

Take creatine.

I don't know if lifting will help your endurance. It will certainly help speed if you build strength and work on neuromuscular efficiency and turn it into power, but endurance I do not know.

I need endurance, to ease the hardness of running, sprinting, quarterdeck, running, sprinting, etc

Originally Posted by ceazur

For the Marine Corps my friend.

Is there a specific test you're training for? If so, what is it?

If not, then try to make a best estimate as to the intervals over which you'll be sprinting. For example, football players may sprint all out for a few seconds, then rest for 30 seconds, then repeat.

Originally Posted by T_man

Take creatine.

I don't know if lifting will help your endurance. It will certainly help speed if you build strength and work on neuromuscular efficiency and turn it into power, but endurance I do not know.

IIRC there are some studies showing the benefits of anaerobic exercise on aerobic endurance. I think I read about this on Patrick's website.

Originally Posted by gtbmed

IIRC there are some studies showing the benefits of anaerobic exercise on aerobic endurance. I think I read about this on Patrick's website.

Yea I've read articles on that but they refer to things like sprinting where lactic acid builds up, rather than weight lifting where it's muscle fatigue that happens.

Stop straying away from the primary question ladies. Whats the best way to build up endurance for sprints. or is the endurance I get from running distance the same?

No sprints are much different from long distance. However sprints can help with long distance. Best bet would be to just do them until you get better, no silver bullet on this one I'm afraid. If you were to work out, it would take you just as long to develop that speed as it would if you did sprints regularly lol