Cardio in Waterbury Method

spawn · Post by **spawn** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 4:17 pm

Hello everyone. Could you advise me about cardio in Waterbury Method? It says medium intesity cardio or GPP. What exactly medium intensity cardio is? I'm 6.0 and ~170 lbs. Thank you.

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:36 pm

65 - 85% intensity..gpp is variuous calisthenic type exercises mixed with cardio type exercises performed in circuits so you may have something like this:

burpees x 10
inverted rows x 15
tuck jumps x 10
100m sprint

x 3 cycles

spawn · Post by **spawn** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:28 pm

Thanx swans!

shazzu · Post by **shazzu** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 8:19 pm

hi, tell me if this is a good cardio routine for the 3 days that i do cardio in the Waterbury Method. btw i run in the treadmill....so i run total of 22 mins and here's how it is, 5 mins @ 6.0 speed then i go up n down 4 times 2 mins on 6.0s and 1 min on 6.0s (12 mins in total) then at the end i finish i off with 5 mins on 5.0speed.

so it's like:

5min -> 5.0s
2min -> 6.0s
1min -> 8.0s
2min -> 6.0s
1min -> 8.0s
2min -> 6.0s
1min -> 8.0s
2min -> 6.0s
1min -> 8.0s
5min -> 5.0s

friend told me this is interval training, but im not sure if im doing it right. gimme some advice!

swanso5 · Post by **swanso5** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 5:14 am

up your hard intervals to s hard as you can go for a minute (you've got 2mins rest after all) and decrease your slow interval to a light jog

also have diffenerent length intervals for each time you do it during the week, even better a different mode to...even better get outside and sprint