Marion Freijsen » resistance http://marionfreijsen.com A blog about Sports, Fitness & Health Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:43:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Block training for strength http://marionfreijsen.com/2009/07/block-training-for-strength/ http://marionfreijsen.com/2009/07/block-training-for-strength/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:08:36 +0000 Marion http://marionfreijsen.com/?p=202 If you are looking to build strength and resilience – you might want to consider block training. Simple word – very hard training! I do block training on the bike in the gym since this is one training session that I really like to control v. closely in terms of effort and time.

The idea is simple – you alternate between high RPM (revolutions per minute) with a low resistance, and low RPM with a very high resistance. Aim for 3 mins. for each block but you can build up ... Read More

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