How to boost your cardiac power with Body Attack

Dear Body Attacker, Do you know what is Cardiac power?

It is how strong your heart can pump blood. When your heart gets stronger at pumping blood with each beat, you also get the benefits of increased anaerobic muscle buffering and local muscular endurance. Simply put, you will recover more quickly during intense bouts of sprints.

In track 4 and track 9 power training, we don’t just train the legs for explosive jumps and faster sprints, we also train the heart, similar to the Cardiac Power Method by Joel Jamieson, we improve the strength of your heart so that it can pump more blood with less beats.

Cardiac Power Training in Body Attack

We usually have 2 to 4 blocks of interval work in tracks 4 and 9 were we bring the heart rate up as high as possible and stay there for 1-2 minutes. Then we let your heart rate come down to 120 -130 bpm. And then we max out again on the next block of work.

Over time your heart rate comes down faster and you recover more quickly from a maximum effort as your heart gets stronger and stronger. When your heart can pump more blood with less beats, you don’t get tired quickly when your moving, lifting weights, or living your life with your daily activities like climbing a flight of stairs, carrying groceries or lifting your your children. My favorite exercise for this kind of training is the Body Attack burpee. It’s a full body movement that recruits a lot of muscles, requires a lot of energy and brings your heart rate up as quickly as seeing your crush across the room.

So this month of the hearts... let me see you max out and pump your heart out! Love, Erik