Training to improve our physical performance is a game of breaking down and recovering. We are applying a stressor (training), to stimulate a response (recovery), that leads to an adaptation (gains).

In this game, we have several variables that we can manipulate to shape the type of stressor we are applying and ultimately affect the nature of the adaptation we are aiming for.

In this current article, we will focus on intensity as our training variable of choice. This post will look specifically at cardiovascular training, with a future post covering resistance training.

Within those two training types, we will look at what intensity means, how intensity can be changed, and what the outcome is of changing intensity.

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