On days that I don’t lift and just do cardio, I aim for 50-60 minutes. I LOVE intervals. I used to love treadmill intervals in particular, but with my foot problems I still haven’t gotten back on the treadmill. I actually haven’t run at all since September 12, the day of my half-marathon stress fracture. It is feeling almost 100% and I am planning on trying to run for like 5-10 minutes on February 1. It started feeling great at the end of December, so I figured another month of non-impact cardio would only help it to get even better.
Anyway… since I haven’t been running I have had to get more creative with my elliptical and AMT workouts. Again, I love intervals, and I find that interval workouts are the only way my heart rate gets in the 75 – 85% range. So, I though I would share my favorite elliptical workout. I have two versions, one easier and one harder. I adjusted the easier workout when it got too easy for me – hence the harder version. Try them, get your butt kicked, and let me know how you like it 
I use a Precor elliptical – either with the arms or without. I choose one of the crosstrain programs which changes heights, or if I’m at my parents’ house, their elliptical has a random program that also changes heights. You will be in charge of the resistance changes. Here they are in PDF for easy printing
Carly’s Butt Kicking EllipticalWorkout
Carly’s Butt Kicking EllipticalWorkoutHarder
I am bad at wordpress and couldn’t figure out how to change the name that appears above… I just left it as my document is saved
Do you prefer when I post fitness or food posts, or some of both?
Do you prefer interval workouts or long and steady workouts?
My preference is the food posts – just because they’re amazing and I bookmark all your recipes!!
Good to know
I have a GREAT one I’m making this weekend that just happens to be vegetarian 
I like the mixture of food and fitness. I like to change up my workouts so when someone shares what they’ve been up too, it a good way to change things up!
Back home I was taking up Krav Maga. And the warm-ups involved a ton of sprints with pushups, squats, bear crawls, spider crawls, etc. So keeping that up with sprints was the most intervals I ever did. I saw a huge difference with my body. On my own it isn’t so easy. I also can’t stand to do more then 30 minutes of cardio on the same machine. I usually just up the resistance up and down. I don’t really consider that intervals though.
I would definitely say changing the resistance is intervals as long as the high resistance intervals are raising your heart rate quite a bit and the lower resistance intervals are dropping your heart rate more to a recovery level! That Krav Maga sounds AWESOME!!!
I’ve really been loving your fitnress posts but I also enjoy the food ones too, so I guess I like a mix
As for intervals or long and steady it depends on if I’m inside or outside. At the gym, whether it’s the treadmill or the AMT I have to do intervals or I’ll go out of my mind. When I’m running outside though, long and steady.
How was your trip?
I love both food and fitness. A nice little balance of both Great meeting you last night too
I have to go with food!! To be honest, the food portion is my preference on any healthy living blog – more fun in my world!!
- Beth @ http://www.DiningAndDishing.com