Difference between Cardio long distance jog and Sprints?

[Minh]

I heard sprints make you more explosive and give you the true cardio and long distance allows you recover more quickly between rounds?

is this the case?

Thanks

[heritagemma]

in terms of muscle, sprints help keep muscle size. distance breaks it down.

[EL-cappee-tan]

It is the other way around. Your sprints will give you the ability to recover between rounds or after flurry

[Sonny]

Sprints are anaerobic, LSD is aerobic.

[scottie2hotttie]

Let me put it this way. In high school I had a best two mile run time of 10:40 on a hilly surface which is pretty good. But I wrestled a guy on the astro-turf and we were both gassed in less than a minute. My muscles were like weak rubber.

[Ogun]

Originally Posted by Minh

I heard sprints make you more explosive and give you the true cardio and long distance allows you recover more quickly between rounds?

is this the case?

Thanks

HIIT builds muscle, LSD aerobics burns it away. Both HIIT and LSD burn fat, but despite the brief time and lower calorie expendure during exercise itself, HIIT burns more fat. LSD is more appropriate to a steady-state endurance sport; HIIT is more appropriate for the vast majority of sports, where max effort is interspersed with working rests and some true rests. HIIT definitely helps your body recover faster. Both HIIT and LSD work the aerobic energy system, but only HIIT also works the anaerobic. LSD encourages transition of fast-twitch muscle fibers to slow-twitch, enhancing endurance but sacrificing strength, power, and speed, where HIIT encourages fast-twitch fiber and the right CNS connections to activate it.

Some explanations: http://xiser.com/Smith-HIIT.pdf

[DeadMeat]

What he said ^^^^

[Brendon Katz]

Originally Posted by Ogun

HIIT builds muscle, LSD aerobics burns it away. Both HIIT and LSD burn fat, but despite the brief time and lower calorie expendure during exercise itself, HIIT burns more fat. LSD is more appropriate to a steady-state endurance sport; HIIT is more appropriate for the vast majority of sports, where max effort is interspersed with working rests and some true rests. HIIT definitely helps your body recover faster. Both HIIT and LSD work the aerobic energy system, but only HIIT also works the anaerobic. LSD encourages transition of fast-twitch muscle fibers to slow-twitch, enhancing endurance but sacrificing strength, power, and speed, where HIIT encourages fast-twitch fiber and the right CNS connections to activate it.

Some explanations: http://xiser.com/Smith-HIIT.pdf

couple of things just to add there:
1 - hiit burns more calories over a longer period
2 - aerobic conditioning (lsd) is appropriate and vital to every single sport
3 - actually, lsd training improves recovery far better than hiit.
4 - without a solid aerobic base, your anaerobic base is severly limited.
5 - lsd improves blood flow, oxygen uptake and a whole host of other benefits that hiit training does not.

so, before you do hiit, you need a solid aerobic base from lsd training. once you begin hiit training, you still need to do lsd training at least once a week.

[WAREAGLE]

Originally Posted by parallax86

couple of things just to add there:
1 - hiit burns more calories over a longer period
2 - aerobic conditioning (lsd) is appropriate and vital to every single sport
3 - actually, lsd training improves recovery far better than hiit.
4 - without a solid aerobic base, your anaerobic base is severly limited.
5 - lsd improves blood flow, oxygen uptake and a whole host of other benefits that hiit training does not.

so, before you do hiit, you need a solid aerobic base from lsd training. once you begin hiit training, you still need to do lsd training at least once a week.

1-yes
2-yes
3- huh...can u explain how?
4- very true, I learned the hard way.
5- I thought that HIIT would improve Oxygen uptake better, isn't that the whole concept behind EPOC.

I might be way off, help me out.

[Brendon Katz]

Originally Posted by WAREAGLE

1-yes
2-yes
3- huh...can u explain how?
4- very true, I learned the hard way.
5- I thought that HIIT would improve Oxygen uptake better, isn't that the whole concept behind EPOC.

I might be way off, help me out.

there are a few guys who can explain way better than i can but - lsd training improves recovery by improving your cardiorespiratory and cardiovascular systems more than anaerobic training, also lsd can be active recovery. im too tired to dig in a textbook now exactly why.

point 5 - anaerobic training is literally, without oxygen. as i understand it, aerobic training involves making more effective use of oxygen, hence...
also, oxygenation of fatty cells etc is not the same as oxygen uptake and output.