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Originally Posted by jspchief
Sounds like it would be tough to execute. Each sprint is supposed to increase in intensity, but it would be difficult to keep from over-reaching too early, or selling yourself short in an effort to avoid the aforementioned.
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The 1.5 minute recovery should help some with that. The article I read basically said, "If you can keep sprinting at the end of the 30 seconds, you didn't go fast enough." Basically it's just like running wind sprints back in high school 2-a-day practices.
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That, and if you work out around others, they'll probably look at you like you're insane.
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This was the other thing the article talked about. It said people wonder what in the hell a middle-aged man is doing sprinting up and down the street. Luckily I work out at about 5:00 in the morning, so my neighbors shouldn't be awake yet. There's also an alley and strip mall parking lot really close to my house I can use if needed. The added benefit is that my gym is located in the strip mall.
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It was raining the other day, so I tried it out on the treadmill at the gym. I couldn't really do a full sprint on a treadmill, so I modified it a little. Ran at 7.5 for recovery (which is fairly fast), then bumped up to 10.5 (not really a sprint but close) for the 30 second high intensity workouts. Ended up clocking about 2.5 miles in 19 minutes. Felt like I had a pretty good workout at the end, but I'm not sure I got the HGH release that I was going for.