The Blog Of Eric Herdman

Yes… density not intensity. Is there a difference? You bet there is! First of all low volume=not much time/miles or duration to today’s little fun fest. Intensity=(often defines) as high out puts of effort (i.e. power) and often done in shorter bouts of duration and often followed by a recovery period. However, one training situation I like to put myself into is one of training density. Density=High output, little rest if any at all and longer workout duration that an intense session would last. On top of that… most of my dense workout often involve different modalities (i.e. cardio coupled with compound weight lifts) or skill/power requirements (i.e. flat running then a sharp turn to steep uphill running).

These workout are great for making you hard! Yes, hard remember they are dense workouts. Not some pansy ass weight workout or a longer tempo run. No, no, no my friends. These are all out war! A full blown Armageddon on your body.

The real trick is to get the right combo of exercises, paces, mph, power and duration to collide in the correct format. Today, I took (I had one hell of a high duration week) and created a density workout that combined aerobic output at no more that 85% of max HR with some very skilled compound weight moves (i.e. single leg straight leg dead-lifts). This one hour and twenty six minute fun fest almost turned into a puke fest. It was awesome!

Hard yes! But nothing a little The Yuppie Has To Die play list couldn’t handle!