Question

To increase aerobic capacity, an individual needs to engage in aerobic exercise for a minimum of:

Answer 1

To improve your aerobic capacity, complete 20-30mins of work at your 3-5km race pace broken down into intervals, with 50-80% of the interval time added as recovery. For example, a runner with a 5km PB of 25mins could run 6 x 1km repeats, aiming to run each in just under 5mins, with 2:30mins recovery.