Exercise Levels of Effort

Level 1: effort can comfortably be sustained all but the final 10 to 5 minutes of a workout, it should cause one to sweat and speech should be limited to one sentence at a time.


Level 2: effort can comfortable be sustained for 50 % of a workout, speech is limited one or two words at a time.


Level 3: effort can only be sustained for 25% of the total workout, no speech, somewhat similar to 5k race pace.


Level 4: effort can only be sustained 5 to 10 minutes max, again no speech, in between ones fastest mile speed and 400m speed.


Level 5: all out sprint for 100m.