This week I’m going to focus on power endurance workouts. Power endurance workouts include power (which I defined a couple weeks ago) involves strength, speed and distance. The movements are short with high-intensity, generally from 1-4 minutes. The movements will be intermittent, repetitive and explosive. Power endurance workouts will be predominantly cardiovascular in nature. Many coaches will use this as a catch-all definition to cover “work capacity” when a session does not fall squarely within another category. But this is not accurate. You can also do power endurance workouts from 4 to 30-minutes with the effort hard and fast, with steady efforts at a high percentage of Max VO2, requiring both high aerobic and anaerobic thresholds. This type of workout engages both slow twitch and fast twitch muscle fibers.
I love power endurance workouts. They are my favorite and this is one of my favorite types. I hope you enjoy it.
