Cardio Training Guidance for Recreational Athletes | Alex Hutchinson, Sweat Science

You’re a busy person. Career, family, social obligations and everything else. What SHOULD you be doing for your cardio if you have just five hours a week to devote to your training? What’s the proper mix of long, slow effort, interval sessions and tempo bouts? How many times a week should you be getting out? And what’s the ideal duration per workout?

To work out the answer, Marty and Stu invite on to the show the science journalist Alex Hutchinson, who has a physics Ph.D. from Cambridge and was on the Canadian national running team. He writes the Sweat Science column, on the science of human performance, for Outside magazine. He’s also the author of the bestselling books Endure and The Explorer’s Gene.

Together, the guys discuss:

• the challenge of cardio training when you’re not a professional athlete.

• the current vogue for Marius Bakken and Norwegian Threshold training

• Norwegian Threshold Training’s implications for Zone 2 and other training protocols

• The optimal cardio training regimen for those who have five hours a week for training

• The challenge of intensity guidance and training thresholds

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