1 Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate Exertion

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For many of us, the most pressing question about exercise is: How little can I get away with? The answer, according to a sophisticated new study of interval training, may be very, very little. In this new experiment, in fact, 60 seconds of strenuous exertion proved to be as successful at improving health and fitness as three-quarters of an hour of moderate exercise.

Let me repeat that finding: One minute of arduous exercise was comparable in its physiological effects to 45 minutes of gentler sweating.

>>> http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/1-minute-of-all-out-exercise-may-equal-45-minutes-of-moderate-exertion/?_r=0

[wellred]

HIIT and steady state cardio both have their place. I now use both.

[Jingthing]

Does one minute of Kegels count?

[Denim]

Ok....so more quick sex and less money spent at the gym.......got it.

[Craig krup]

The problem is that this is just a confirmation of Tabata's results, which were that 170% of your maximum oxygen consumption for twenty seconds, with a ten second recovery, repeated until collapse (a few minutes, whoever you are) is highly effective. But - 1) most people have nothing like the muscular power to get anywhere near the required level, and 2) the process is so horrific that although it doesn't take long you spend the whole week dreading is, or recovering from it.

For me, a few years ago, it meant 15kph up a 15% slope, and I was rubberised in about six efforts. It was f'kin horrible. If you watch Muppets on YouTube doing "Tabata" they are doing what they could sustain for an hour for twenty second intervals - it's nonsense.

Last night I did my "Friday they're closing the building ten minute Wattbike workout" - five one minute intervals at 48kph with one minute recoveries. Horrible, but bearable and quite productive. If you are very highly motivated, have no health problems, and can control your diet, I think you could maintain cardiovascular fitness and big muscles on less than half an hour a week: one or two blistering CV workouts and some Mike Mentzer absolute failure strength training. But most people have nothing like the motivation to make it work.

[Dagnabbit]

Going flat out could be a good way of discovering whether you have any underlying heart problems.

I like to run, I have a nice 8k circuit around the area I live. When I am out there, I am getting a de-stress from my work, getting some fresh air, putting a few smiles on Thai faces.

I also like to go to the gym, throw some weights around. Again, I find it good to de-stress.

Exercise releases endorphins, at the end of a run/weight session, I feel good.

I think there's a lot of benefits to moderate exercise for a moderate period. I don't see the need to go too long OR too hard to be honest.

[NancyL]

No, I don't think this is a troll post. Not unless that NYTimes website is a spoof site, which I doubt.

However, I think I'm going to have to discuss this with my cardiologist before attempting anything like what's recommended.

Also, I don't think it's going to do much for weight control.

[Tywais]

An inflammatory post removed.

[slipperylobster]

there goes my argument for procrastination...

[chubby]

yes, i was wrong, i didn't click the URL, thinking he was selling something , now i see it , apologies. I guess I had just got done read the Herpes guy with spots on his personal areas, and what people write on TV there.....

having said that :

the devils is in the details,

lets just point to vo2 max , as "the benefit"

Total Exercise Time

Research has demonstrated that improvements can be made in V˙O_2max and insulin sensitivity in as little as 4 minutes of total exercise time in an HICT session (^{4, 16}). However, it is to be noted that this result often requires working at intensities equivalent to greater than 100% of V˙O_2max (¹⁶).

[chubby]

of course, also, they have commodity-tized the research, so you can hardly ever read anything but the abstract, unless you pay big bucks, or belong to a university system ..

different topic

yes, i was wrong, i didn't click the URL, thinking he was selling something , now i see it , apologies. I guess I had just got done read the Herpes guy with spots on his personal areas, and what people write on TV there.....

having said that :

the devils is in the details,

lets just point to vo2 max , as "the benefit"

Total Exercise Time

Research has demonstrated that improvements can be made in V˙O_2max and insulin sensitivity in as little as 4 minutes of total exercise time in an HICT session (^{4, 16}). However, it is to be noted that this result often requires working at intensities equivalent to greater than 100% of V˙O_2max (¹⁶).

[DogNo1]

I have worked 20-second intervals of high-intensity effort into my 30 minute bike routine and quite like the results. I still like the 30-minute duration of the ride so I have just interspersed 3-4 twenty second HI intervals into the 30 minute workout. I think that I get some extra benefits by keeping the total time at thirty minutes.

[chubby]

I'm pretty sure, this is NOT any new news, just happens, whatevers is on front page of the NYT gets echo'd around everywhere like the BBC world news, I just heard it, hardly world news, if you ask me.

today in NYT is this ( if one's premise, hypothesis, are present loosely, it's just another pop-science article imho, eg, how important is VO2 max as a measure of morbity and heart health, if that is what were talking about for a 20 year old vs. a 70 year old, maybe not much, and/or what is /are the best measures of what exercise does for a person, if they don't have diabetes, yet ?)

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