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01-25-12, 03:03 PM | |
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Like "eating clean" or "boot camp" or "results", those phrases mean whatever the person saying it want them to mean.
I think of circuit training as going in a circuit - a circle - around a set of exercise stations or machines more than once. But a lot of "circuit" workouts on DVD only go around once. "AWT" was only used by the Firm, I think.
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01-25-12, 03:06 PM | ||
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I think the fitness industry needs to get their terminology straight |
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01-25-12, 03:11 PM | |
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I think of circuit training as going in a circuit - a circle - around a set of exercise stations or machines more than once. But a lot of "circuit" workouts on DVD only go around once.
This. Also, I was given the impression that interval training is where you work at a moderate intensity for around five minutes (or how ever many minutes the trainer sets) then ramp up the intensity for 1 minute , then go back to the moderate intensity for 5 minutes again, and so on. Something like in Karen voights energy sprint or Gin's Intense moves. Any other thoughts? |
01-25-12, 03:19 PM | |
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I think Sue is absolutely right. There really isn't an accepted definition for either term. I've always thought of circuit training as involving weights--usually doing a certain number of exercises back-to-back with little rest. Sometimes the circuits can be broken up by cardio. Most of what Collage calls "interval training" I would consider circuit training.
I consider interval training to refer to cardio only (but I might be alone in that!). And intervals are a period of very hard work, followed by a period of recovery. Tabatas and HIIT are just types of interval training. Metabolic conditioning is very broad and particularly hard to classify. What I've been doing as metabolic conditioning involves doing high-intensity (and often high-impact) bodyweight and/or KB moves with a rest interval. So it's sort of interval training. But they're often done as circuits... I don't think I helped much--just muddied the waters even further
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01-25-12, 03:35 PM | ||
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IMO, the strength workouts of S90 are more like superset workouts. You do two or three sets of exercises back to back, rest and do the same group again before moving on. The NROL books work the same way.
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