Comment by emptyfile
3 years ago
Sure, you are broadly correct, however.
>But for regular people, the goal is to overall improve their body and condition using a small time span
No, the poster above you directly specified running endurance. That's what we're talking about NOT just running for general health. And not limiting training to a couple of hours per week.
>interval training
Interval training in the context is a pace-specific running workout, not interchangeable with HIIT.
Besides that the main point would be that long slow aerobic training has benefits that HIIT doesn't, mostly regarding the volume of blood the heart can pump.
So its not just for performance. Long slow volume will give you a lower resting heart rate and adaptions that HIIT alone will not.
> No, the poster above you directly specified running endurance. That's what we're talking about NOT just running for general health. And not limiting training to a couple of hours per week.
Fair enough. I interpreted that differently, but maybe you are right and we were just talking about different goals/contexts.