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Originally Posted by wutamess
What does the release of HGH accomplish?
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Well HGH (Human Growth Hormone) is most famous as the stuff that athletes are illegally taking to increase their performance. They're paying lots and lots of money for it. While I'm not into just adding HGH directly into my system via supplements, I would be into increasing my HGH through "natural" means. Here's an article on the benefits of HGH:
http://www.i-care.net/hgh-benefits.html
While their case may be a little overstated, basically HGH is being looked at as the fountain of youth and is touted to do everything from increase performance (on the field and in bed) to burn fat/add muscle mass to lowering blood pressure.
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And is this workout the same workout we used to do in HS for basketball practice.
Sprint a 200 and walk/rest another 200 and then sprint a 200, etc. build up by 1 every other day.
We eventaully got up to 17 or so 200's.
By the way... I tried doing this last year after not having worked out for a long time. I about damn near killed myself. I was looking like the fat guy on The Longest Yard that asked for a can of corn while laid out on the ground.
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Pretty similar, yeah. Distance isn't as important as time. Sprint 30 seconds, recover 1.5 minutes, sprint 30 seconds, etc. Do 8 cycles of that. Also should have a 3 minute warmup. First three sprint cycles shouldn't be full speed. Takes 20 minutes and is supposed to significantly increase performance as well as the effectiveness of any other workouts you're doing (like lifting weights).