Latest High-intensity interval training Stories

By CARY ASPINWALL It's what you're burning when you're not at the gym that counts Slow and steady doesn't win the race when it comes to cardiovascular exercise and weight loss. Short bursts of high- intensity intervals mixed into your usual cardio routine will give you better results faster, said Clint Howard, exercise physiologist and owner of Fitness Together locations in south Tulsa and Bixby. "Most people are kind of old school -- they think you're supposed to do long, slow cardio...

By DOUG KREUTZ "Interval training is a great fat-burning workout." Fred Harvey Director of track and field and cross-country at the University of Arizona Elite athletes offer two words of wisdom to those of us who want to rev up our workouts and make big fitness gains: Interval training. It's a technique - suitable for runners, cyclists, swimmers and others - that calls for alternating bursts of high-intensity effort with intervals of lighter activity. Athletes credit the method with...

By Doug Kreutz, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson Aug. 5--Elite athletes offer two words of wisdom to those of us who want to rev up our workouts and make big fitness gains: Interval training. It's a technique -- suitable for runners, cyclists, swimmers and others -- that calls for alternating bursts of high-intensity effort with intervals of lighter activity. Athletes credit the method with increasing aerobic capacity, building speed, burning fat and reducing boredom. "Interval training...

SAN DIEGO, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Americans are looking for clear and concise answers when it comes to how to drop a few pounds this summer and many are turning to their personal trainers to show them the way. The American Council on Exercise (ACE) recently conducted a survey of 1000 ACE-Certified Personal Trainers to get their advice regarding the best techniques to get fit for summer. They recommended strength training, interval training and increased cardio as their top three exercise...

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I would like to read what you have to say on interval training. I do the treadmill for 50 minutes to 60 minutes. When I'm on it, I walk for five minutes and then run for five minutes. I have the treadmill on a fairly steep incline, so I feel I am getting a good workout. I would love to learn more about interval training. - V.B. ANSWER: I just wrote about fartlek, a variant of interval training. But the subject of interval training is important enough to merit a repeat. It's...

BETHESDA, Md. (June 14, 2005) "“ Catch an athlete with clear potential early in his career, study his physiology over an incredibly eventful seven years including victory in the Tour de France, and you might uncover some incredibly important, indeed amazing facts about what training and dedication can accomplish.What Edward F. Coyle of the University of Texas-Austin found out about Lance Armstrong was that from 1992-1999, the year of his first of now six consecutive Tour de France wins,...

Hamilton, ON. June 1, 2005 - Just six minutes of intense exercise a week could be as effective as an hour of daily moderate activity suggests new findings from researchers at McMaster University. "Short bouts of very intense exercise improved muscle health and performance comparable to several weeks of traditional endurance training," says Martin Gibala, an associate professor in the department of kinesiology of McMaster. The research, which is published in the June edition of the...