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Heart Health: Sprint or the Long Haul

Posted on June 06, 2008

A new study claims short high-intensity workouts are just as heath health as endurance training. The New York Times Well blog is on it:Researchers at McMaster University in Canada recruited 20 healthy men and women whose average age was 23. All of the study subjects rode stationary bikes. Some exercised five days a week, doing 40 to 60 minutes of moderate-intensity cycling. Others did four to six sets of 30-second sprints on the cycle, allowing 4.5 minutes of recovery time between sets; their total exercise time was about 15 to 25 minutes just three days a week.After six weeks, the researchers...

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