Tips to add intensity to workouts
The following are the top 5 tips to add intensity to workouts.
Complex movements
A few of the movements that are helpful for the intense workouts. These complex movements should be done under a proper trainer.
Slower certain exercises
- There are certain exercises where you need to increase your speed and for a few of the exercises you need to get slower with your exercises.
Power workouts
There are a few of the workouts which helps in improving your intensity. A few of the power workouts that help you to improve your speed.
- Jumping
You can include jumping to your regular schedule. Jumping involves various kinds of workouts. You can go for long jump and straight jump. You can jump forward with both your legs. You can even go for a straight jump and even hurdles might help in increasing your stamina. - Power Squats
You can power your stamina by doing power squats. You can Jump with both the feet together both in the forward direction and backward direction. - Power Lunges
Even tough lunges are tough to workout but are very helpful to add speed to your intense workouts. - Hopping
Hopping helps you to develop stamina in your calf muscles. You might need a lot of stamina especially in calf muscles when you go for hard workouts.
Lifting weights
- Lifting weights helps in gaining a proper form and a good posture to your body. It is advised that you lift weight accordingly that is, do not lift the weights beyond your limit. You can increase the weights gradually when you become familiar to lifting of weights.
- Runners must have a good muscle power along with stamina in legs that helps while running.
Interval Training
The basic ways to do interval training along with your regular workouts are mentioned below.
- Varied intervals
- In varied intervals, you can go on the harder workouts that you can do for your event. You can work hard for a longer time and then take long time to recover for your next hard workout.
- For example, you can go on running up hill which is strenuous. After running up hill you might have a rigorous pain in your legs. So, you might need some time to recover from this pain to get ready for the next workout.
- Measured intervals
- In measured intervals, you work hard for a limited period of time for a measured distance.
- It might be very difficult for you to recover soon, when you do intense workouts in measured intervals.
