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Fit and Fine by Kamal Singh CSCS: Why you should adopt the fartlek

ByKamal Singh CSCS
Jan 23, 2022 12:49 AM IST

This Swedish way to carry out intervals in your workout regime has more benefits that you think. Here’s why it could work for you

Interval training is all the rage these days. Gyms and trainers tell us how we can do more with less if we do high interval training. Slow cardio is pooh-poohed as out dated and ineffective while interval training is sold as the latest and the greatest. But runners and running coaches have been using intervals since forever and they know one thing – interval training is to be used sparingly. In fact, most serious runners dread doing intervals as the intensity levels in these workouts are high and doing too much too often limits the ability to recover from workouts.

If you run four times a week – 3 sessions would be easy pace runs, only one run would be an interval session (Shutterstock)
If you run four times a week – 3 sessions would be easy pace runs, only one run would be an interval session (Shutterstock)
Run fast for some distance–this could between two lamp posts, trees etc (Shutterstock)
Run fast for some distance–this could between two lamp posts, trees etc (Shutterstock)
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