Is Run/Walk considered interval training?

[CheryG]

Either the Galloway method or C25k?

There's an interval training article going around the horse world right now and what everyone seems to be describing as intervals is C25k walk/run.  I don't consider that interval training.  IMO intervals are a higher intensity workout one does after a cardiologist base is built.

I might not be up to date on this sort of thing, so I ask you all.

[Ice Cream]

I would think it qualifies as such. But I do not really think it really matters what you call your workout.

[CheryG]

Are we talking interval training for people or horses?

I've always though of intervals as switching from medium-fast to really-fast to brief rest, and repeat

YMMV

For people.  I've always thought as intervals being more HIIT, a hard workout done after a cardio base is built.

[CheryG]

I would think it qualifies as such. But I do not really think it really matters what you call your workout.

True.  But for sake of language and understanding IMO it's good to have a fairly universal definition of something.

[radial]

Gallowalking has the same shape as high-intensity interval training, more or less.  But I think of them as training methods that target different energy systems.  Gallowalking primarily builds aerobic capacity, interval training primarily targets the anaerobic energy system.  There's crossover, of course, but I think that's generally accurate. 

[merigayle]

"Hundred Milers are all Gallowalking Festivals" - Merigayle

That's the truth

[nneJ]

There's an interval training article going around the horse world right now and what everyone seems to be describing as intervals is C25k walk/run.  I don't consider that interval training.  IMO intervals are a higher intensity workout one does after a cardiologist base is built.

Interval training: training in which an athlete alternates between two activities, typically requiring different rates of speed, degrees of effort, etc.

So yeah, it's interval training.