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I'd love to hear thoughts on this. The link will allow you to access the research.If you’re gonna do sprint intervals/HIIT with short rest periods, make sure you really rest in between each sprint. Active recovery (where you keep moving during your “rest” periods, albeit at a lower intensity) reduced sprint performance when compared to passive recovery (do nothing; just rest). If you take longer rest periods (100+ seconds), how you recover has no effect.Read more: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/weekend-link-love-228/#ixzz2MOEtA2t3 - See more at: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/weekend-link-love-228/#axzz2MOElmQPb
Kind of reminds me of Joel Jamieson's High resistance intervals idea, I think he suggest 5-6 seconds of HRI followed by ~1 minute of passive recovery (or until heart rate returns between 130-140). He recently had a video on his webpage about it too.About the study itself:1. Very small study group of 8, doesn't say whether they were sedentary individuals or athletes...etc, makes a difference, I'd be interested if they redid the original Tabata study with active individuals.2. Very short sprint duration of 5 seconds, so does that extrapolate out if you increase the sprint duration? So if the sprint duration is 3 times a long would a person need 3 times as long recovery as indicated in the study?
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