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Originally Posted by toosoretowalk
Oh, and Ruthie, I love me some Cathe. But her IMAXs (and other workouts like Drill Max) seem more like aerobic intervals to me than anaerobic. The hard part of her intervals is too long and the "easy" part doesn't give you enough opportunity to recover for it to be anaerobic, I fear. Do you think she fits the anaerobic interval criteria?
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Well I would think they fit the criteria if you can get your heart rate up high enough during the intervals for it to become anaerobic. If you are superfit you might just be breezing through the intervals I guess
. The original IMAX is more repetitive of the same movement (e.g. all those plyo jacks or lunges) and I definitely get anaerobic in those, I can feel the lactic acid. The Gin Miller workout is more like that as well, although not as hard. I don't know, I think anything that really challenges you and pushes your heart rate up is probably a good substitute if the other stuff is making you really miserable, even if you only throw a step workout in every two weeks just to make a change.
I think the biggest problem would be that your body gets used to those workouts and then it's harder to push yourself further as you get fitter (whereas on a bike, running etc you can always go that bit faster).
The other one I thought of that might do is the high intensity section of Kick Max - I don't know if you have that. There's pretty short recovery times in there and fairly high intensity stuff in between if I remember rightly (haven't done it for a while).