Three Ways To Increase The Intensity Of Your Workouts

When you repeat the same exercises every day at the same pace, you can easily get stuck in a rut. The good news is that you can also switch up your workout routine and burn more calories and increase your endurance.

Let’s have a look how below:

Increase The Power Of Your Cardio Workouts

How about adding some power to your workouts in order to burn more calories and improve your strength, speed, and power? The purpose of power moves, or plyometric exercises, is to help athletes jump higher, build endurance, and protect themselves from injury. Power training does not require you to train like an athlete.

Jumps: You can raise your heart rate by adding different types of jumps to your workout. Attempt squat jumps long jumps with both feet, or jumping up onto a step or platform with both feet at once.

One-Legged Jumps: When you jump with one leg, you get a whole new challenge. Jumping with two legs is challenging, but jumping with one leg makes it much more difficult. You could jump up and down on one leg, hop across the room or jump onto a step. Slow, explosive movement is best.

Power Jacks: Squats add power as well as slow squats. As low as you can, jump and land in a wide squat. Jump backward with your feet together in an explosive manner.

Power Lunges: You can do exactly the same thing with lunges. Lunge in the air, jump up, switch legs, and land in a lunge.

Lifting Heavier Weights

One important thing you have to do if you want your strength training programs to be effective: overload your muscles. Overloading your muscles means lifting more weight than your body is accustomed to lifting. By doing so, you build stronger muscles and lean body tissue, which helps your body adapt. It’s always best to get chest workout advice before you add too much weight.

Weight training is hard for a lot of us because we slack off a little. Lifting heavy weights can be challenging and might even feel uncomfortable for a newbie. For those who want a little excitement and intensity in their workouts, why not try their limits to see what they can accomplish?

Ideally, you don't want to start powerlifting right away since you don't necessarily want to take all your exercises to fatigue and you don't want to risk injury.For someone who has been lifting the same weight for a long time, going heavier is a good idea. To make it simple, follow these steps:

Pick a weight that's heavier than what you usually use (if you're lifting very heavy, have a spotter). Put as much weight on as you can with good form. It should be difficult, but not impossible to complete the last rep.

If you are able to do more than 15 or 16 reps, go heavier the next time and aim for 10 or 12 reps. If you feel uncomfortable lifting heavier weights, try one set with the heavier weight and then move on.

Train With Intervals

Interval training can help you. With interval training, you add short bursts of intensity (either with speed or resistance, or a combination of both) throughout your workout. Working very hard for a while-that means pushing yourself to your limits-is best followed by a recovery period.

There are a few basic ways to perform interval training:

Measured intervals: This type of training involves working hard for a period of time or distance, then recovering for a period of time.

Varied Intervals:

For this type of training, you just push yourself harder and then rest as long as is necessary to prepare for the next hard interval. If you're walking or running outside, you can sprint toward something in the distance, or run up a hill as fast as you can, then walk back down to recover.

Aerobic Interval Training: The intervals in this workout are challenging, but do not go very high in intensity, so it's great for beginners. Using this method, you might do three minutes at moderate intensity and then three minutes at an intensity slightly higher than moderate.

Anaerobic Interval Training: During this type of training, you will get out of your comfort zone, working as hard as you can for short periods of time. The workout might consist of 5 minutes of jogging followed by 30 to 60 seconds of sprinting. HIIT is also known as High-Intensity Interval Training and can include a variety of different workouts such as Tabata Training, High-Intensity Circuit Training, and Metabolic Conditioning.

This short should help you when you want to increase the intensity of your workouts. Do you do anything else that would increase the intensity? Please share some examples in the comments below.