How to Run Faster Through Interval Training

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Les Whitley. I'd like to talk to you right now about utilizing interval training to help you run faster. Interval training is mixing up tempos, mixing up paces, and actually mixing up styles of training to help you improve your running efficiency, your running speed and performance. You may find that some days, especially for those sprinters will work on getting out in their starts. Then they may focus on running a little bit longer distances or changing up the tempos during their runs where it's an all out max effort for the start. And then they'll ease into a jog. Then they'll pick up the intensity again focusing not only on interval training within the actual day, but also throughout the course of a week or weeks or cycles of training so that you may have one high level intensity lev training session. Then you may taper off to a medium intensity training session or vary that within one single work-out. Utilizing interval training allows you to adjust intensity of the work-outs, the pace of the work-outs, and the style of the work-outs focusing from strength training and power building to maintaining strength endurance as far as improving your ability to put force and power into the ground. Others may work on technique training through high intensity repetitions for short duration on on a track or utilizing hill training to over-speed the body forcing it to compensate for that additional force as you run down the hill or running up the hill actually using more musculature to drive your body through space. Interval training's a great way to incorporate different styles into to improve your overall running speed and performance."