Sprint Intensity Training | Better Than Endurance and HIIT?

Sprint Intensity Training (SIT) is pitched as one of the most time-efficient ways to train.

The interval format uses multiple, 30-second sprint efforts completed at an absolute all-out intensity with long and fully recuperative rest periods between intervals.

Logic would point to this making you a faster sprinter, but studies have shown surprising improvements in endurance performance markers that endurance athletes should not ignore.

A stark contrast to endurance training, SIT has delivered comparable results to endurance training interventions that had athletes doing 90% more work.

So the question has to be asked: is the time-efficient nature of SIT enough to make endurance athletes replace standard endurance training?

Watch the rest of the video to learn more about Sprint Intensity Training’s current research, what researchers still don’t know about SIT, and how to implement it responsibly in your training!


// STUDIES REFERENCED IN THIS VIDEO

1. Short-term sprint interval versus traditional endurance training: similar initial adaptations in human skeletal muscle and exercise performance: https://trainerroad.cc/3NRAI2Q

3. Sprint Interval Training Effects on Aerobic Capacity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: https://trainerroad.cc/3yrTMz8

4. Metabolic adaptations to short-term high-intensity interval training: a little pain for a lot of gain?: https://trainerroad.cc/3uy8VxF


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