Monday, November 10, 2014

SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone: No Time? No Excuse! Three Minutes (One Minute All ...

SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone: No Time? No Excuse! Three Minutes (One Minute All ...: HIIT your weaker self hard, with a total of one minute all out cycling. It's the most often heard excuse you get, when you ask your ...



Participants were allocated into the male or female intervention group and matched for age, body mass index and VO2 peak. The experimental protocol, itself consisted of familiarization and baseline testing that was followed by a 6 wk training intervention and post-training measurements. Over the course of the 6 week intervention period the subjects hit the gym only once a week, where they did

  • 3x20 s all-out cycling efforts
  • against a load corresponding to 0.05 kg/kg body mass,
  • separated by 2 min of low intensity cycling (50 W)
The exercise was performed on an electronically braked ergometer (Veletron, RacerMate, Seattle, WA, USA). With the obligatory 2 min warm-up and 3 min cool-down at 50 W, the sessions lasted 10 minutes. That's more than just three minutes, but if you think about the exhausting part of the workout, only, it's actually not a three, not a ten, but a one minute workout.

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