Blasts of exercise as good as training for hours
Experts have discovered that your body can benefit as much from quick bursts of exercise as spending hours training.They say several short, but high intensity training sessions can be better for you than spending hours in the gym.
The team from McMaster University looked at the impact of micro training sessions, such as spending 60 seconds on an exercise bike, 12 times.
It was found that if the exerciser spent the short time working out to their maximum heart rate their muscles improved as much as if they had been involved in endurance training.
However, 12 minutes of punishing exercise still sounds a bit too much like hard work to use… even if it does mean boffins are going to have ripped six-packs now.
"What we've been able to show is that interval training does not have to be "all out" in order to be effective and time-efficient," says Martin Gibala, professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University.
"While still a very demanding form of training, the exercise might be more achievable by the general public - not just elite athletes - and it certainly doesn't require the use of specialised laboratory equipment."
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"While still a very demanding form of training, the exercise might be more achievable by the general public - not just elite athletes - and it certainly doesn't require the use of specialised laboratory equipment."
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McMaster University
