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If you are using weights or resistance machines cut the rest time between sets and use

heavier weight. Do sets for opposite muscle groups for instance, biceps and triceps or lats
and pecs. Do a set of curls followed by a set of triceps extensions shortly after the curls. The
biceps will be recuperating from the set of curls while the triceps extensions are being done.
Keeping the time short when the triceps extensions are completed do a second set curls.
Increase your heart and respiration rates and keep them up. Get the idea? Go from one
muscle group to it's opposite.

If you are running increase the distance or pace to take your body into a level where it is no
longer comfortable with the amount of work or intensity of the work you require of it. Your
body will adapt to the new work load and it will be able to work longer and harder. That is
how you can increase stamina. Ankle and wrist weights can be added occasionally to change
things up.

Do sprints. If you can burn up a quarter mile track do so. Rest 5 to 10 minutes and do it
again. Repeat one more time. Mix up the running. Change the demands on your body to
make it adapt to what it hasn’t been called on to do. Take it out of it’s comfort zone. Three
quarter mile runs in succession will do that. Carry your watch and time yourself. Try to cut
your times.

I once ran a 45 minute route regularly and when I got near the end with about an eighth of
mile left I would go flat out. When finished I would suck in lung fulls or air for about a
minute and I needed the breathing! I was spent. I had emptied the tank on that eighth of a
mile. I would then drop and do 50 pushups. Next would be 50 sit ups. Some stretching
exercises and I was done. A body gets used to a workload such as the run and that ending
to it gave me endurance not too many had. Build up to that kind of thing.

Simple boxing exercises such as jumping rope with a 3 minute timer and pouring it on,
increasing the pace near the end of 3 minutes to leave yourself panting at the end of the
third minute will help. You get to do it all over again in one minute when the timer goes off
again. Sort of a form of HIIT.

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