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30 second bursts of exercise might be better for you than extended periods of time
THIRTY-SECOND bursts of intense activity may be better at warding off heart disease and related conditions than hours spent pounding the pavements or at the gym, according to a new exercise regime to be unveiled this week.
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http://m.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/scotland/30_second_secret_to_lifelong_health_1_2139758
"The research team hopes it will improve the health of the nation by making it easier for everyone to find time to exercise. "
Oh dear. The problem is that it is difficult to figure out how one can fit this sort of exercise into normal life without going to the gym, time consuming in itself. Anyone fancy going to the shops in the form of 30 second sprints with 1 min rest in between? Thought not.
The article mentions running up stairs which would work but not everyone has access to a 30 second flight of stairs (having to perform accasional stair runs in my job, this is quite a lot of stairs) And quite frankly, even if they do have access, who is actually going to do it? And if they do do it, who is actually going to do this at the kind of intensity needed?
Nice idea but it is not going to work for the same reason that no other form of exercise regime works. People are lazy.
Exercise needs to be built into your life such as, ooh I don't know. Cycling to work/shops/school?
Sounds like my old weights routine, except I only did two or three work sets. I hasten to add the health benefits of such a regime are limited and easily outweighed by the detriments, unless you are more careful than I was.
Nice idea but it is not going to work for the same reason that no other form of exercise regime works. People are lazy.
Yarp - the two ways of sneaking exercise under people's laziness radar is the utility method(walking, and that paying-no-road-tax one that skips red lights) or by disguising it as a game, dance or social activity, eg Zumba, Boxercise et al.
I can't see how you can make 30 seconds of all-out into either, so it'd only be for the minority who already do exercise for its own sake.
Just move to a top floor flat in a tenement stair with no lift. Keeps you fit, especially when hauling shopping/kids/work gear/bicycle...
On the other hand, you have to get a nice cup of tea ready for visitors who huff and puff their way up several flights of stairs!
Maybe they should introduce a parking permit that gives a cheaper rate or more free options or lowers fines if the car's parked at least a mile away from the driver's workplace during their work hours.
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Exercise needs to be built into your life such as, ooh I don't know. Cycling to work/shops/school?
precisly why I started commuting on the bike
I simply found any form of excercise routine faltered because of time constraints
either work,my other halfs work and watching my boy
Bit of a non-story, but if yer interested there is more in depth examination of this idea here:
http://sweatscience.com/reduced-intensity-hit-the-flutter-of-exercise/
And on the same site is an interesting comparison of HIT verses continuous training:
http://sweatscience.com/intervals-versus-continuous-training/
On the other hand 30 seconds of high intensity is (too often) an excuse for poor/no warmup and the same sort of warm down, leading to damaged soft tissue (and if I smash up 30 sec of stairs for example without proper buildup knackered knees as well). Rubbish idea.
As others have said, people are lazy (myself included!) the only way to ensure regular exercise is to make it fun and therefore desireable to do and/or easier than the alternative, eg I have organised my life/commute so that cycling to work is less hassle than taking the car.
Well I wore my HR monitor yesterday and on the short climb from Crossgatehall to Cousland I was 2bpm below my HRmax. So if the research is right I'm going to get back my fitness in no time.
@chdot, do you want to do that trick for the run from Falkirk High station up to Shieldhill? :-)
It normally leaves me peching!!
Gosh chdot, that's impressive. I have CycleStreets on my Bookmarks toolbar and never thought to use it for elevations.
"never thought to use it for elevations"
It's automatic - every time you plan a route.
I'm sure I went up quite a few hills like that in Mid and East Lothian last week on the CTC ride...
"do you want to do that trick for the run from Falkirk High station up to Shieldhill?"
Easy, anyone could do it (on CycleStreets)
Thanks, that looks about right, the extra gradient at about 1.5 miles is the real pain in the legs/lungs! After that it's ok.
That hill is why I like having low gears available(!)
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