PACE vs. HIIT

I asked D.M., “What makes PACE unique?” He said, “It’s a more intense way of doing interval train-”… I didn’t want to interrupt him but I had to stop D.M., one of the guys on my staff, right there. That’s what everyone thinks. That PACE is about intervals. But it’s much different. It’s true that like PACE, High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) uses high exertion over short intervals. But it’s not the right starting point for everyone. And it is not PACE. The problem with HIIT is that the typical deconditioned American can’t run eight 100-yard wind sprints. They are not ready to do extreme workouts. This is why I developed PACE. I designed it to work for someone at any fitness level. No matter your current conditioning, PACE still works. In helping people get to that level of fitness, I discovered that the journey was greater than the destination. Here’s what I mean by that… The number one predictor of how long you’ll live is lung power. When I learned that, it struck me that fitness training had been focusing on the wrong thing. Cardiovascular endurance training doesn’t make lungs strong and healthy. It shrinks them. So I started to think, how do I make people’s lungs strong so they can be healthier? What I did was borrow from my knowledge as a strength and fitness coach and put it together with the science I learned as a doctor. So I’ll ask you: How do you build power in any organ or muscle? You do the same thing fathers have been teachi...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Fitness Heart Health Source Type: news