1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness as much as 3x aerobics

Re:1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness a... by Arch-TK on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @07:16AM (#34517362)

Time cost is one of the major obstacles for more than just the reason of "it takes this X minutes out of your week". If you tell me I have to spend 45 minutes doing exercise 3 times a week my mind will be filled with excuses and the dread of how exhausted I will feel after 45 minutes and how it will likely be more like a 2 hour time commitment every time I do it. It's a much easier sell to say: 10 minutes where you're only spending 1 minute of time doing something intense and the rest is spent doing something quite light.

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Re:1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness a... by nottorp on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @07:56AM (#34517680)

45 min is a streaming series episode. I've found that the only way to get my ass on a stationary bike is to stick it where I can see the TV and watch something brainless. Ideally fast paced and violent so I can pick up the rythm :)

And admit it, no matter how busy you are you do watch some entertainment once in a while.

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Re:1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness a... by Arch-TK on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:43PM (#34523154)

Of course I do but I watch stuff with my fiance, the idea of putting an exercise bike in the living room with her would likely not go down well.

Likewise, in 10 minutes you can watch some short youtube video. The point is not that you can sweeten the deal of the 45 minute work-out to make it more bearable, the point is that when faced with 10 minutes of exercise vs 45 minutes of exercise, 10 minutes is a much easier pill to swallow _and_ is infinitely better than 0 minutes.

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Re:1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness a... by snapcaster on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @08:41AM (#34518104)

I have yet to hear an _honest_ "i don't have time excuse". Everyone that has said this to me watches hours of netflix, dicks around on phone, etc. etc. Everyone has time, they just don't actually want to be healthy or in good shape. They want to want it

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Re:1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness a... by Arch-TK on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @02:49PM (#34523221)

Nobody has time for anything they don't make time for, and making time for 2 hours of exercise related activities is far more difficult to muster (in terms of willpower) than making time for 10-20 minutes of the same.

I'm glad that you have unlimited reserves of willpower and have no trouble with procrastination and as a result can just do any task on demand no matter how seemingly unpleasant it sounds, but unfortunately almost nobody on this planet is like that.

This research is very positive and useful to get people who are currently doing 0 minutes of exercise a week to do 30 minutes of exercise a week, it flies in the face of a lot of "if you don't exercise for at least x minutes a week, you might as well not be exercising" bullshit.

30 minutes of exercise per week (it doesn't really matter if it's high-intensity or not) is really much much better than 0.

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Re:1min high-intensity exercise 3x a week improves fitness a... by snapcaster on Thursday January 26, 2023 @09:12AM (#34531777)

I'm not saying i'm perfect, just more honest with myself than using the "don't have time excuse"

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