90 Day Challenge : Interval Training

When I started this challenge, one of my goals was to do some of the workouts that I pin on pinterest and never end up doing. That ended today. I chose an interval treadmill workout that I thought would be pretty easy. FALSE… I was dying. The post claimed that if you do this workout every other day you will lose 8 lbs. in one week. I don't think that is necessarily true, but it was a great workout with a good calorie burn.

Here's the info:

1 min at Speed 5 (on the treadmill)
1 min at 5.5
1 min at 6 (Speed 6 is a 10 min. mile)
1 min at 6.5
1 min at 7
1 min at 7.5
1 min at 8
2 min at 4.5
REPEAT 5 TIMES

Honesty moment - I had to skip the last two level 8 intervals because my legs were about done… but I did the rest.

This workout was definitely challenging for me. My advice would be to do these intervals, but max out at whatever challenges you. If 6.5 is running all out for you, end there and repeat 5 times. The point is to get your heart pumping, then let it rest and push it again.

You'll love the way you feel after this… go do it!

Here were my final stats on the treadmill after:
It took me 40 minutes
4.23 mi.
619 Calories (which is probably pretty inaccurate since they don't take into account gender or weight/height)