Friday, February 10, 2012

High-Intensity Training Equal to Endurance Exercise

(Medical News Today) UPDATED 2010-03-14
Experts say a lack of time is no excuse for being sedentary, because high-intensity interval training (HIT) can deliver the same benefits as long-term endurance training in far less time. That means that doing 10, one-minute sprints on a bike with a rest period in between can increase endurance as hours of moderately-strenuous biking. It's not even necessary to do "all out" sprints with HIT, the researchers found, because benefits can be seen with HIT done at approximately 95 percent of maximal heart rate.  Read full story >
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