Do you have a citation for this? My impression is that the level of exercise needed to get benefits quickly hits diminishing marginal returns as soon as one has some regular form of exercise, but I haven’t looked at the literature on this subject in any detail, but articles like this suggest that the amount needed is not very high.
″ This modified routine involved one minute of strenuous effort, at about 90 percent of a person’s maximum heart rate (which most of us can estimate, very roughly, by subtracting our age from 220), followed by one minute of easy recovery. The effort and recovery are repeated 10 times, for a total of 20 minutes.”
is not light exercise. Have you done a HIIT routine similar to the one listed? It’s brutal.
Do you have a citation for this? My impression is that the level of exercise needed to get benefits quickly hits diminishing marginal returns as soon as one has some regular form of exercise, but I haven’t looked at the literature on this subject in any detail, but articles like this suggest that the amount needed is not very high.
″ This modified routine involved one minute of strenuous effort, at about 90 percent of a person’s maximum heart rate (which most of us can estimate, very roughly, by subtracting our age from 220), followed by one minute of easy recovery. The effort and recovery are repeated 10 times, for a total of 20 minutes.”
is not light exercise. Have you done a HIIT routine similar to the one listed? It’s brutal.
HIIT is the opposite of light exercise. While the time involved may be low, the effort involved is extremely, extremely high.