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Lead Stories: Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Pressed for Time?
Try Interval Training

Posted October 15th, 2007 at 10:26 PM by Hariz Siddiqui

Section: Running & Training, Training Tips, Health & Fitness, Exercise

The following article is written by TFS Media’s Lindsay Hutton.

If you’ve been watching television lately, you’ve probably been bombarded with the latest fitness trends claiming the average person can get away with doing about 10 minutes of cardio a week and still lose weight. In a society where lack of time is the number one reason people give for not exercising, 10 minutes a week sounds too good to be true. Well, unfortunately it is, but while this claim is a stretch (a BIG stretch), there is some truth behind the “less is more” concept.

For those that are not familiar with interval training (in it’s basic form - it can be adapted for marathon runners, etc.), it consists of exercise that incorporates short bursts (think 30-60 seconds) of high intensity activity followed by a longer period of low intensity recovery. For example, a basic interval training program would consist of walking briskly for two minutes, sprinting for one minute, and alternating this pattern for 20 minutes.

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