Windsprints and leaning out

[Juice Authority]

Maybe this doesn't belong here maybe it does. I hear a lot of you are incorporating windsprints in your workout routine. What's the science behind that? My theory on it is that it increases blood flow and circulation by pumping more oxygen into the muscles that allow for harder contractions and better pumps in the gym. Now this could be totally out of left field but it might have some merit.

 

[locolou]

Windsprints are awesome. Whenever I do windsprints my legs and stomach get ripped up in like 3 0r 4 weeks. It doesnt take a genius to figure this out. Just watch the 100m in the olympics.

 

[variation]

it's like HIIT dude; and if you read some of the studies comparing it to lower intensity cardio; it gets people ripped way faster.

*due mostly to the drastic metabolic increase in the hours after the session.

 

[Ulter]

What is it? You don't like the gray and blue? The format isn't to your likeing? You don't like the name Anabolic Fitness? WHAT?
You just won't go over there and read the Fukkenshredded windsprint program and the discussions about it. You know he STARTED the windsprint fat loss program on the boards in the first place?

HE DID \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/

Fine. Don't go there. I see how it is with you.

 

[MrMakaveli]

What is it? You don't like the gray and blue? The format isn't to your likeing? You don't like the name Anabolic Fitness? WHAT?
You just won't go over there and read the Fukkenshredded windsprint program and the discussions about it. You know he STARTED the windsprint fat loss program on the boards in the first place?

HE DID \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/

Fine. Don't go there. I see how it is with you.

lol that might be the most entertaining thing I've read all night.

 

[Mavy]

Uhh ... Ulter .,..that was me who asked you the first time. I think that you are mistaking JA for me asking a second time. I did check it out on the AF board. Great board with lots of info ... great postcycle section as well.

JA, think of it as a metabolism kickstart. Although its done for only a short period of time, it kicks your BMR into gear for hours afterwards as compared to a low intensity cardio regimine. Check the AF board, you can find some great info.

The only downside for me is my shins. I think that I am just to heavy to be sprinting ... I get shinsplints from it very easily. Its only gonna get worse when I start my cycle too.

Mavy

 

[Ulter]

 

[mlong23]

good theory. Will have to try in a few months.

 

[Juice Authority]

What is it? You don't like the gray and blue? The format isn't to your likeing? You don't like the name Anabolic Fitness? WHAT?
You just won't go over there and read the Fukkenshredded windsprint program and the discussions about it. You know he STARTED the windsprint fat loss program on the boards in the first place?

HE DID \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/

Fine. Don't go there. I see how it is with you.

Ok, ok, ok. I'll go grace you all with my presence.

 

[Dial_tone]

I've not understood the fascination with sprinting for BB'ers personally, and I was on the track & field team two years in college. Yes, it can burn alot of calories in a very short time period. However the risk of injury is very high. Quite often hamstring pulls/tears are the result of a muscle strength imbalance..the quad contracts so violently that it more or less pulls the hamstring from it's attachment. I also think the high intensity interferes with quad workout recovery. I'd rather do lower intensity exercise for a longer period of time personally. Give me a bicycle and 20-40 miles of pavement and I'm a happy guy. Let me tell you, chicks in cars dig a muscular ass & thighs pumpin away from a stoplight. I get alot of honks (at least til they pull up alongside and see my ugly mug)