Continuous vs. Fartlek — What's the Difference?

Uninterrupted in time, sequence, substance, or extent.

Fartlek, which means "speed play" in Swedish, is continuous training with interval training. Fartlek runs are a very simple form of a long-distance run.

Attached together in repeated units

An athletic training technique, used especially in running, in which periods of intense effort alternate with periods of less strenuous effort in a continuous workout.

Of or relating to a line or curve that extends without a break or irregularity.

A workout using this technique.

Of or relating to a function between two topological spaces such that the preimage of any open set in the range is an open set in the domain.

An athletic training technique, used especially in running, in which periods of intense effort alternate with periods of less strenuous effort in a continuous workout.

Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.

A method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise

Without intervening space; continued.

(botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.

Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).

(grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.

Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity.

Not deviating or varying from uninformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.

Continuing in time or space without interruption;

Of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity