Just 1 Minute Of Intense Exercise May Keep You Fit

[Spectral]

So if I spend 20s during my bike to work pedaling as hard as I can (3 times during the 15min bike to work), I would be more fit than just normally biking to work? I guess I'll give it a go, I'm in the perfect position to do that.

This is pretty much definitely true. Varied heart rate (and effort) is better than a constant effort for most fitness purposes. Pedaling hard occasionally will improve fitness.

[Strangebrew]

And if you switch hands regularly, you get big arms too!

Obviously, don't want to end up like this

[Torgent]

So if I spend 20s during my bike to work pedaling as hard as I can (3 times during the 15min bike to work), I would be more fit than just normally biking to work? I guess I'll give it a go, I'm in the perfect position to do that.

Yes, adding in higher intensity intervals will produce better results. They won't be immediately noticeable, but every little bit helps, especially if you're already doing the exercise.

[Kronik85]

1 minute!? Who's got time for that? Any chance we can get this down abit to maybe 10-20 seconds?

[Reeve]

So if I spend 20s during my bike to work pedaling as hard as I can (3 times during the 15min bike to work), I would be more fit than just normally biking to work? I guess I'll give it a go, I'm in the perfect position to do that.

I wish I could bike to work. Houston isn't particularly friendly to biking.

[Annoying]

I wish I could bike to work. Houston isn't particularly friendly to biking.

Hah, Socorro is the opposite. Short of the final stretch to work (which passes by a school), I don't even see any cars maybe half the time.

[apples]

1 minute!? Who's got time for that? Any chance we can get this down abit to maybe 10-20 seconds?

10-20 seconds?

man i WISH i had that kinda free time

[Reeve]

Hah, Socorro is the opposite. Short of the final stretch to work (which passes by a school), I don't even see any cars maybe half the time.

There are no bike lanes in most of the city of Houston, nor shoulders on the roads. Biking in the city is relying on drivers not to run you down. Plus, there aren't a lot of good biking corridors that aren't interrupted every few feet by a traffic light or other intersection. There are some along the bayous, but they'd never get me from my apartment anywhere close to my workplace.

[Annoying]

There are no bike lanes in most of the city of Houston, nor shoulders on the roads. Biking in the city is relying on drivers not to run you down. Plus, there aren't a lot of good biking corridors that aren't interrupted every few feet by a traffic light or other intersection. There are some along the bayous, but they'd never get me from my apartment anywhere close to my workplace.

True fact, we only have one road with traffic lights on it, and I avoid it for the bike to work. It also has the absolute WORST type of lights for every intersection, in that they are all trip lights, so a single car on a cross street trips the light and like 10 people get to wait at a red for a single person. Pretty much all of our roads have shoulders that are large enough to park on, so you can pretty much ride on the shoulder the whole way. Generally I'll have to go around 3 or 4 parked cars, though.

[Reeve]

True fact, we only have one road with traffic lights on it, and I avoid it for the bike to work. It also has the absolute WORST type of lights for every intersection, in that they are all trip lights, so a single car on a cross street trips the light and like 10 people get to wait at a red for a single person. Pretty much all of our roads have shoulders that are large enough to park on, so you can pretty much ride on the shoulder the whole way. Generally I'll have to go around 3 or 4 parked cars, though.

Yeah it really weirded me out moving to Bouston and finding that the roads almost never have shoulders. Having grown up in San Jose, CA where virtually all roads have a shoulder or a bike lane or both. And weirdly here, because there's no shoulder, cars will sometimes just park right in the middle of a lane.

[Annoying]

The weirdest parking I've ever seen was in Philly. People park in the middle median, so strange.

[May90]

This is pretty much definitely true. Varied heart rate (and effort) is better than a constant effort for most fitness purposes. Pedaling hard occasionally will improve fitness.

This is also why people who jog with occasional sprints get MUCH better results than people who just jog. That said, jogging with sprints is also MUCH harder than just jogging; when I used to jog every day, I often slacked on sprinting, because of how exhausting it was.

[Serpha]

So it's 10 minutes, not 1 minute? That's the basic HIIT training, known for very long time. Click bait.

[May90]

So it's 10 minutes, not 1 minute? That's the basic HIIT training, known for very long time. Click bait.

Yes, the title is a bit misleading.

[Maconi]

I thought everyone already knew that HIIT was more effective than constant effort?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-i...erval_training

EDIT: Didn't see Serpha's post.

[Independent voter]

copy and past this code in a TXT file and change the extesion to html. It gives you a 20 second warning in yellow before the sprints which are in red.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<!-- <link href="css/some-stylesheet.css"
rel="stylesheet"/>
<script src="scripts/some-script.js">-->
<script>
function runProgram() {
changeBackground('blue');
ms = 1000 * 100;
setTimeout(changeBackground,ms,'yellow');
ms = ms + 1000 * 20;
setTimeout(changeBackground,ms,'red');
ms = ms + 1000 * 20;
setTimeout(changeBackground,ms,'green');
ms = ms + 1000 * 100;
setTimeout(changeBackground,ms,'yellow');
ms = ms + 1000 * 20;
setTimeout(changeBackground,ms,'red');
ms = ms + 1000 * 20;;
setTimeout(changeBackground,ms,'green');
ms = ms + 1000 * 100;
setTimeout(changeBackground,ms,'yellow');
ms = ms + 1000 * 20;
setTimeout(changeBackground,ms,'red');
ms = ms + 1000 * 20;;
setTimeout(changeBackground,ms,'blue');
changeBackground('white');
}
function changeBackground(color) {
document.body.style.background = (color || 'black');
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="runProgram('');">

</body>
</html>

[Luxxor]

This information isnt useful to people who actually work out and understand exercise.

[Grimbold21]

Like a lot of people these days, I spend most of my time in front of a PC, working, playing games, watching TV, etc.

Then replace a gaming/tv session with an workout. You spend an hour or two playing WoW or whatever? There's your time window.

[RaoBurning]

This is also why people who jog with occasional sprints get MUCH better results than people who just jog. That said, jogging with sprints is also MUCH harder than just jogging; when I used to jog every day, I often slacked on sprinting, because of how exhausting it was.

Can confirm. I can do a 5k jog easily enough, but tossing in even short sprinting absolutely wrecks my time. And my right knee. All of it kills my knee, actually, but the sprinting really grinds it down.

[Khadgar]

could someone tell me if i'm getting the most out of my treadmill exercise?

i normally go to the gym 4 times a week doing 2 miles each time.

speed walk at 5.0 mph for 3/4 a mile then run at 7.5 mph for the last 1/4. then i stop to get my lifting in and then do another mile.