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Re:High Intensity Training Improves Health, Physical Functio... by pangram on Sunday July 27, 2014 @09:05PM (#8094594)
Yeah, I was surprised by the fact that such a short duration of exercise (11 minutes of exercise twice / week) could have such a large impact on health. I wish there were more details on how much exercise each group had before the study -- my question is whether HIT on its own is good enough, or does it require normal exercise as well?
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Re:High Intensity Training Improves Health, Physical Functio... by x0x0 on Sunday July 27, 2014 @09:06PM (#8094597)
participants where untrained
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Re:High Intensity Training Improves Health, Physical Functio... by Dewie on Sunday July 27, 2014 @09:10PM (#8094614)
Conventional wisdom says that you're not really working out unless you spend 10-25 minutes on warm up, an hour or more on working out, and some stretching to finish off and/or a cool down. That isn't even counting the time to go to the gym or the park, or the shower afterwards. No wonder people are inactive.
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Re:High Intensity Training Improves Health, Physical Functio... by tinco on Sunday July 27, 2014 @09:22PM (#8094652)
What conventional wisdom is that? The standard for warm up is 5 minutes isn't it? And a standard work out is 20-25 minutes as far as I'm aware. You can do a whole work out in 30 minutes.

My runs are 5 minutes warm up, I spend those 5 minutes walking to get from my house to a park, then 20-25 minutes running around the park (c25k plan) and then 5 minutes of walking back. You can fit that into almost any part of your day.

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Re:High Intensity Training Improves Health, Physical Functio... by azatris on Monday July 28, 2014 @02:01AM (#8095421)
What about dressing up for the jog and afterwards showering and dressing up again? Also most people don't have a park in a 5 minute walking distance. I would say for most people they take 10-30 minutes to get to the training place, train at least 20 minutes and then 10-30 minutes back again and then 5-10 minutes of shower. Now that is quite a large part of the day.
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