HIIT versus type II diabetes

[tjl]

To test their hypothesis, the authors recruited 16 healthy young men (median age 21) to participate in a trial of high-intensity interval training. None of the volunteers was involved in a structured program of physical activity.

Over the course of two weeks, the participants completed six sessions of supervised high-intensity interval training. Each session consisted of four to six 30-second sprints on a stationary bicycle.

At baseline and at the end of the two weeks, the authors assessed the participants' aerobic performance in a self-paced cycling time trial, as well as glucose, insulin and non-esterified fatty acids response to a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test.

The end-of-study measurements showed significant improvement in each parameter of glucose tolerance.

"The simple idea is if you are doing tense muscle contractions during sprints or exercise on a bike you really enhance insulin's ability to clear glucose out of the bloodstream," Timmons said.

The findings highlight a way for people who do not have time to work out a few hours each week as recommended to improve their health, he added.

But I wonder if the people who think that they can get healthy by exercising 7 minutes per week (like the title of the Reuter's article says) realize that HIIT means exercising at full effort for those 7 minutes (in 30 second or whatever chunks).

 

[xiwang315]

http://www.liangdianup.com/miscellaneous_1.htm

Who needs that much velcro?


Why would anyone need that much velcro? These guys sell it by the roll and is
hook and look and velcro the same thing?

 

[Karky]

exercise improves glucose tolerance (as long as it's not hard eccentric), yeah. I thought this was old news? It's cool that they exercised for so little time and it still had results, though.