CH Runners
Running => Running => Topic started by: CheryG on October 13, 2015, 08:20:56 AM
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Either the Galloway method or C25k?
There's an interval training article going around the horse world right now and what everyone seems to be describing as intervals is C25k walk/run. I don't consider that interval training. IMO intervals are a higher intensity workout one does after a cardiologist base is built.
I might not be up to date on this sort of thing, so I ask you all.
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I would think it qualifies as such. But I do not really think it really matters what you call your workout.
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Are we talking interval training for people or horses?
I've always though of intervals as switching from medium-fast to really-fast to brief rest, and repeat
YMMV
For people. I've always thought as intervals being more HIIT, a hard workout done after a cardio base is built.
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I would think it qualifies as such. But I do not really think it really matters what you call your workout.
True. But for sake of language and understanding IMO it's good to have a fairly universal definition of something.
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Gallowalking has the same shape as high-intensity interval training, more or less. But I think of them as training methods that target different energy systems. Gallowalking primarily builds aerobic capacity, interval training primarily targets the anaerobic energy system. There's crossover, of course, but I think that's generally accurate.
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"Hundred Milers are all Gallowalking Festivals" - Merigayle
That's the truth :D
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There's an interval training article going around the horse world right now and what everyone seems to be describing as intervals is C25k walk/run. I don't consider that interval training. IMO intervals are a higher intensity workout one does after a cardiologist base is built.
Interval training: training in which an athlete alternates between two activities, typically requiring different rates of speed, degrees of effort, etc.
So yeah, it's interval training.