Want to Get Fit? It Only Takes a Minute, Say Some
Face it. We've heard it all. Do 10 sit-ups in 10 minutes and lose 30 pounds. Walk a quarter mile and have the heart of a 20-year-old. Now they're saying one minute of exercise can do it. According to newswise.com, it may be one minute but it's a minute of vigorous, heart-thumping exercise. You know, the kind where you think you're going to have a heart attack. This happened to me recently on the arc trainer, what seems like a stair-climbing elliptical (I have yet to figure out what exactly it is, but what I do know is it's the only exercise I can do 10 minutes of and feel like my blood pressure has shot off the charts). Researchers at McMaster University have found that a single minute of very intense exercise produces health benefits similar to longer, traditional endurance training. “This is a very time-efficient workout strategy,” says Martin Gibala, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster and lead author on the study. “Brief burst...