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Interval training is a great way to up the ante on your cardio routines.  But what happens when even your interval training is getting stale?  Is that possible?  Intervals can be quite intense anyway, but sure, it’s definitely possible to get bored even of HIIT (stands for “high intensity interval training”).

So, how do you crank up your intervals?  Or at least get some interval training in that doesn’t feel like the ‘same old, same old’?

Intervals don’t have to be limited to just running but if running is your sport of choice, you can incorporate different kinds of intervals into your training.  Try finding a big hill and doing hillsprints, or finding a sandy beach and doing your sprint training in the unstable sand or better yet, the resistance adding waves.  Or you can find a big field and sprint to one end and do a slow jog back to the other side (and repeat ad nauseum).

BUT, if you’re looking to liven it up with different kinds of intervals besides running, then there’s also lots you can do.  Intervals can be done with almost every kind of cardio exercise imaginable.

Hop on your mountain bike and find a good hilly trail to cycle.  Hills add intervals to your training naturally.  Every up hill is your work interval and every trip down is your rest interval.  You don’t even have to time it.  Just keep finding hills and giving it your all on every trip up.

I have a little trick when I’m short on time and need a quick interval workout without leaving home.  Luckily I live in a highrise building in the city with a huge stairwell, so I head to the bottom of the stairwell and climb 20 storeys as my work interval, until I hit the top.  Then I punch the elevator button and take a quick ride to the bottom as my rest interval and hit that stairwell again for another work interval climbing to the top.  Eight times doing this takes me 45 minutes and it’s a heck of a great workout.  It worksy my glutes, hip flexors, quads, hamstrings, and calves thoroughly and gives my cardiovascular system a major boost in the process.

Another cool alternative for Interval Training is to SWIM it out!  Yes, you can do interval training swimming too.  And, believe it or not, there’s lots of ways to ‘time’ your intervals when you’re underwater.  A cool gadget that’s available now is an underwater mp3 player and there are lots of different brands making these now.  So you can either load in a timed interval mp3 and use that to time your swim intervals or just pick a few songs that have a definite ‘chorus’ and ‘non-chorus’ parts to the songs and swim hard for the chorus and swim easy for the non-chorus parts.

Or, if you don’t have the budget for a swimming mp3 player, just time your intervals by counting your strokes.  Swim hard for 50 strokes and easy for 50 strokes.  Or change your strokes.  Swim hard for 50 meters of front crawl and 50 meters of breast stroke at a slower pace.  This is easier to accomplish in a swimming pool where you hit the wall and turn around for the next 50 meters (for example).  If you’re in a lake or ocean you might try swimming from buoy to buoy.

Another great and extremely easy way to do intervals that you can also do pretty much anywhere is to make sure you’ve got a jump rope with you and just start jumping.  Jump at regular pace for your rest interval and double pace for your work interval.  Count turns of the rope to time it out.  100 fast jumps for the work interval, 50 slow jumps for rest interval.

There ya go.  Intervals options to keep you interested and motivated with your interval training for weeks to come.  Enjoy the benefits you’re sure to see from all your hard work.

And don’t forget to have fun.

Robert Martin has a ton more ideas for cool interval training alternatives in his Look Great Naked At Any Age workout system.

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It is no brainer that to be a better swimmer you have to do swim training regularly. But did you know that a lot of people get very little out of their training and most people train just to maintain their swimming performance? I’m sure you would agree that something must be done to improve the efficiency of each swim training if we want to improve as quickly as possible.

The most important thing when doing swim training is that you have to enjoy it. If you don’t enjoy what you do then you will never achieve anything out of it. In fact most people quit because of the simple fact that they don’t enjoy it. Some people might argue that all it takes is willpower and discipline but how far can that take you? Forcing yourself to do something that you do not enjoy will only make your life miserable and we already had enough misery in this world.

To make swimming fun it is very important to have like minded people and train together. That way it won’t be boring and you can come up with fun activities such as a mini competition or something and the loser will be thrown into the pool 10 times.

By doing swim training together you can also help guide each other when swimming. Most of the time when we swim it’s hard to notice the mistakes that we made but the person that watches us swim can see it clearly. Take turns watching each other swim and be attention to it. After your observation tell the person where he or she had done wrong. Please be mindful not to be too aggressive on your observation as some people don’t like it. The last thing you want is to turn this into a fist fight.

Moreover most drills are best practice by the help of another person. For example when training balancing where your back is facing the water, it would be good to have someone to hold your head while you try to float your body by kicking your legs. Doing it alone is possible as well but a person that is not so good in balancing will face much more difficulty in doing so.

So make your swim training count by getting like minded people to train with you.

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