{"id":2577,"date":"2014-03-06T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:43:28","slug":"the-debate-about-high-intensity-interval-training-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2577","title":{"rendered":"Fitness: The debate about high intensity interval training goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve posted a few times about interval training (just type &#39;interval training&quot; in the search box above), which holds that if done at high intensity levels, the results &#8211; especially relating to cardio &#8211; are as good or better than longer moderate exercise, but take much less time.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s more research on the subject, from the NY Times fitness section a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/26\/how-to-get-fit-in-a-few-minutes-a-week\/?emc=edit_hh_20140304&amp;nl=health&amp;nlid=5681832\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">High-intensity interval training, a type of workout that consists of very brief bouts of very strenuous exercise, has become enormously popular in recent years. A main reason is that although such workouts are draining, they can be both very effective and very short, often lasting only a few minutes. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ve posted a few times about interval training (just type &#39;interval training&quot; in the search box above), which holds that if done at high intensity levels, the results &#8211; especially relating to cardio &#8211; are as good or better than longer moderate exercise, but take much less time. Here&#39;s more research on the subject, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6542,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/6542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}