Mihail Pautovmedic, IC Fundeni · Doctor Mihail - Medic specialist în chirurgie generală, Educator de sănătate

Antrenamentul de intensitate ridicată te ajută să-ți crești rezistența la efort ☝🏻👨🏼‍⚕️🏋🏼‍♂️

25 May 2025 · 0 min

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This content was created by Mihail Pautov. This content was uploaded by Mihail Pautov. This is a YouTube video titled "Antrenamentul de intensitate ridicată te ajută să-ți crești rezistența la efort ☝🏻👨🏼‍⚕️🏋🏼‍♂️" (created 2025-05-25). The excerpt is a short conversational transcript in English between Mihail Pautov and another speaker (Speaker B). Mihail asks which to prioritize when one cannot train VO2 max and muscle simultaneously; Speaker B advises time-efficient approaches to improving VO2 max—favoring high-intensity interval training or sprint intervals over long zone 2 sessions—and cites examples like ~20 minutes/week or even 4 minutes/week for sprint intervals.

What would you prefer to train if. If somebody has to choose? Because I cannot train VO2 max and muscle in the same time in the same week.
There are many ways to improve VO2 max. And when I say many, yes, you could do zone two training, but when people are really looking to also improve VO2 max, another way to do this is high intensity interval training.
Yeah.
And that would take 20 minutes a week. And that, quite frankly, is all I do. So I do. I typically do more high intensity training and that is how I utilize exercise or somewhat of a cardiovascular system to improve my VO2 max. And so you do not have to do zone two long types of training to get an output that you're looking for. So for someone like you who doesn't have a lot of time, I don't think it's necessary. If I had to pick between zone 2 steady state cardio and high intensity interval training, or even sprint interval training, which would be four minutes a week, I would choose high intensity interval training.