Sometimes, it seems like everyone these days is into jogging. Every morning and every evening, scores of joggers go past my house. Jogging is good exercise. It can help combat stress and lower a person’s body fat. Similar to other forms of aerobic exercise, jogging can also help prevent hypertension, heart disease, some cancers, and can even help prevent or control diabetes.
So jogging is great. It’s good for you, inexpensive, and easily accessible. But what about sprinting? Sprint training is a complete, total-body workout. Like jogging, sprinting promotes weight loss and can increase a person’s metabolic weight for several days post-out. Sprinting is one of the best ways to train your lower body without using resistance training. Sprinting basically offers all the benefits of jogging, except better, and offers a few new ones as well.
A basic rule of exercising is that you train long or train hard. Jogging is equivalent to training long. It’s a lower-intensity exercise that should be performed for longer periods in order to achieve the full benefits. Sprinting is training hard, and if a person can sprint for long periods of time, they’re probably already a talented athlete or they aren’t training hard enough. Frequently, people who are training using sprints do a series of sprints in short bursts, sometimes even as short as 30 seconds.
The pain that people feel after exercise is caused by damage to the muscles. The process of getting more fit involves causing mild muscle damage via exercise, and then the muscles become stronger when they recover. For this reason, it can be advisable to either have a rest day, or a day where you focus on a different muscle group than the one you just exercised. In some cases, it is advisable for people perform sprints on no more than three days per week, or every other day. As always, people should consult their physician before making drastic changes to their diet or exercise routine.
