Chuck
04-02-2006, 01:28 PM
This is a humorous off-topic to on-topic post.
Runners and other athletes will improve their speed and endurance by randomly running hard, then walking several times. Sometimes called interval training, it might seem like "pulse and glide", although it's not a real good comparison - "punch and recal" is more accurate. The intent is for a runner to push himself to the point of exhaustion and then walk to recover, or "recal" as they made a hard run past the aerobic zone. Generally, interval training is random as to how far you run hard then do the recovery walk, repeat, repeat....
Most or all of you have probably seen the idiotic version of this on the freeway. A good time to see this is on weekends or just before "happy hour". Dallas has a bunch of 20 or 30-something guys in their power trucks that slam their accelerators so you hear the bullet mufflers sound like they are passing gas big time (I'd be embarrassed, but somehow they are proud to do it. :rolleyes: ) Frequently they will charge right into a bottleneck and I'll glide past them in another lane. Reminds me of interval training, or speed play, but let's use the original Swedish term - fartlek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartlek). {Bevis & Butthead do their magpie chuckle...}
Runners and other athletes will improve their speed and endurance by randomly running hard, then walking several times. Sometimes called interval training, it might seem like "pulse and glide", although it's not a real good comparison - "punch and recal" is more accurate. The intent is for a runner to push himself to the point of exhaustion and then walk to recover, or "recal" as they made a hard run past the aerobic zone. Generally, interval training is random as to how far you run hard then do the recovery walk, repeat, repeat....
Most or all of you have probably seen the idiotic version of this on the freeway. A good time to see this is on weekends or just before "happy hour". Dallas has a bunch of 20 or 30-something guys in their power trucks that slam their accelerators so you hear the bullet mufflers sound like they are passing gas big time (I'd be embarrassed, but somehow they are proud to do it. :rolleyes: ) Frequently they will charge right into a bottleneck and I'll glide past them in another lane. Reminds me of interval training, or speed play, but let's use the original Swedish term - fartlek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fartlek). {Bevis & Butthead do their magpie chuckle...}