I did intervals on a bike last night. I had my right calf injured at the beginning of this month while doing 20 K tempo run. I haven’t been able to do any quality running training since then. I’ve been doing “non-running” training to keep my fitness, But cardio has been somewhat neglected. I have a race in mid April. Further neglect could lead to unrecoverable setback. So I decided to compensate with cycling training because it doesn’t hurt the injured part.
In the training tonight one set consists of a 4-minute all out session and a 2-minute cruise. I repeated it 10 times. It was done on a straight course with moderate undulation. There was a brief warm up and warm down before and after it respectively.
All in all it was an awesome fat-burning cardio session because my waist looked noticeably thinner after the training. It was a good hormonal feast also because I felt the same usual exhilaration and subsequent calmness that typically follow interval training done by running. Those feelings are given to you as a reward for hard work because dopamine and serotonin are secreted. Cycling intervals have the same effect.
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