{"id":1107,"date":"2010-03-22T07:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T07:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2010-03-17T19:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T19:31:13","slug":"10-min-sprints-beat-10-hours-of-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/22\/10-min-sprints-beat-10-hours-of-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"10 min Sprints beat 10 Hours of Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always nice to see mainstream science starting to catchup with what Crossfitters are doing, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.co.uk\/news\/817371-10-minutes-of-fast-sprints-beat-10-hours-of-cycling\">The Metro<\/a> last week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A set of <strong>ten one-minute sprints<\/strong> on an exercise bike three times a week holds the <strong>same benefits as ten hours<\/strong> of \u2018conventional\u2019 distance cycling.<\/p>\n<p>High-intensity exercise at <strong>95 per cent of your maximum heart rate<\/strong> is an efficient way of avoiding heart disease, obesity and stroke, say researchers at McMaster University in Canada. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like Tabata training, 1 minute intervals with some (unspecified) rest is a wicked way to get your heart rate up and get maximum effort out (&#8220;wicked&#8221; here is not meant in the common vernacular to mean &#8220;cool&#8221;, it really is <strong>wicked<\/strong>!).  <\/p>\n<p>People look at me funny when I say a typical Crossfit workout is in the 10-15 minute range, more exceptionally in the 5-25 minute range, and that&#8217;s your workout for the day done.  When I bought some new trainers, one of my colleagues asked me how far I run.  <em>&#8220;Usually 400m,&#8221;<\/em> I said, <em>&#8220;as part of a circuit type workout.&#8221;<\/em>  He admitted that at the pace he runs, he could plod on for hours.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that getting fit doesn&#8217;t mean you need to spend hours at the gym.  <strong>10-15 minute, high intensity workouts are much more efficacious than long torturous sessions<\/strong>, and a lot more fun too. Don&#8217;t believe me, believe the scientists at McMaster University in Canada instead, they said so!  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always nice to see mainstream science starting to catchup with what Crossfitters are doing, from The Metro last week: A set of ten one-minute sprints on an exercise bike three times a week holds the same benefits as ten hours of \u2018conventional\u2019 distance cycling. High-intensity exercise at 95 per cent of your maximum heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[122,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-1107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-crossfit-workouts-exercises","9":"tag-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}