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functional fitness, strength training, and flexibility
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Stregth Training and Functional Fitness with a Warrior's Attitude
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Total Body Transformation Training BlogA journey about training the entire body to acheive peak fitness and health. Whole body training isn't about body building, toning or running a marathon per se. It's about teaching the body to optimize and balance strength, speed, and strength-endurance. And it's about developing an attitude that is all to lacking in the West around hard work, effort, and the meaning of the journey. Wednesday, February 11, 200410 Minute SolutionCovert Bailey did a correlation of cardiovascular training "patients" and concluded that cardiovascular fitness is improved with as little as 8 minutes of sustained interval training that puts the heart in the cardio training zone during the peak periods. Later, olympic track and field coaches showed that 10 minutes of training at 80% or more of VO2max was enough to promote improvement in highly trained athletes.10 minutes does not seem like a lot. It is too tempting to do too much. But diminshing returns steps in. This doesn't mean that the entire workout takes 10 minutes. In addition to warm up and cool down there is sustained effort intervals that move the heart rate up and gets your system approaching VO2max. 10 minutes of interval training at that point when you are fully warm and moving is real work and produces sustained athletic performance.
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