What Is Cardio Vascular Fitness

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1 (eg, going for a 30-60min walk/run). At this stage you should be able to sustain at least 20-90 minutes of activity. Your training intensity should be 65%-80%Hrmax. Fartlek training involves interspersing short bursts of intense/faster work throughout a continuous activity. It is a great way of introducing more intensive work. The difference between this activity and pure continuous work is that there is a deliberate attempt to increase the intensity which causes a temporary build-up of lactic acid. Interval training involves alternating periods of activity and recovery. The advantage of this form of training is that it provides greater amounts of exposure to intensive training without incurring excessive fatigue. Greater recovery will occur if you remain walking or moving throughout. This increases the body's ability to remove lactic acid from the muscles, take it back to the liver, and convert it to energy.

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