Intensive interval training 'could cut time spent exercising outdoors'
26/02/2010 Intensive training can help significantly cut the amount of time people spend exercising outdoors, experts have suggested.
The concept is based around the idea of doing short periods of extremely intense exercise with short rests in between. Aerobic exercises, such as running and jumping on a trampoline, often work best.
It is thought that if undertaken correctly the process can cut down one week's worth of exercise into just one hour.
Olympic athletes have already been following the concept for a number of years and it is currently only recommended for younger healthy people.
Jan Helgerud, an exercise expert at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, told the Associated Press that "high-intensity interval training is twice as effective as normal exercise".
"You should be a little out of breath, but you shouldn't have the obvious feeling of exhaustion," the expert explained.
Trampoline exercise is already well recognised as an extremely efficient way to keep fit and is believed to be over 60 per cent more effective than running as a form of exercise.
The concept is based around the idea of doing short periods of extremely intense exercise with short rests in between. Aerobic exercises, such as running and jumping on a trampoline, often work best.
It is thought that if undertaken correctly the process can cut down one week's worth of exercise into just one hour.
Olympic athletes have already been following the concept for a number of years and it is currently only recommended for younger healthy people.
Jan Helgerud, an exercise expert at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, told the Associated Press that "high-intensity interval training is twice as effective as normal exercise".
"You should be a little out of breath, but you shouldn't have the obvious feeling of exhaustion," the expert explained.
Trampoline exercise is already well recognised as an extremely efficient way to keep fit and is believed to be over 60 per cent more effective than running as a form of exercise.
