One of the best ways to get in shape and change your body is sprinting. The only negative for sprints are the fact that they are pretty tough.
Sprints are tough but they are worth it. Some benefits you get from sprinting are: accelerated fat loss, increase in HGH and testosterone that will help you restore muscle tissue and build lean muscle, better race times for runners and bikers, and the workouts are shorter.
You can definitely go out and run sprints, hill sprints are even better. But the main purpose of my message today is to trick yourself into doing a sprint workout.
One way you can do this is a Frisbee workout. On Easter afternoon my son and I went to the park with our fancy Aerobie Pro AKA The Astonishing Flying Ring. This thing is awesome! You can easily throw it 100 yards with minimal effort.
We were just looking for something different to do, but it ended up being a fun and effective workout. With sprinting for fat loss, a good rule of thumb is to rest twice as long as you sprinted (ex sprint 20 seconds, rest 40 seconds). Which ended up about the rest intervals we were doing since every other throw would be way over the other person’s head.
That is just one example, but there could be 100s of ways you could trick yourself into sprinting. And sprints can be done on foot, a bike, swimming, in a wheelchair, skateboard, etc…
Your homework this weekend is to find a fun way to work sprints into your workouts. The Frisbee Fitness come highly recommended, but here are a few more options:
-Play tag, capture the flag, or even red light/green light
-Get up the stairs as fast you can
-Play a sport like basketball, flag football, lacrosse, or soccer
-Go roller skating (if you know how to stop without running into video games or small children)
