Three Minutes of All-Out Intermittent Exercise per Week Increases Skeletal Muscle Oxidative Capacity and Improves Cardiometabolic Health

Jenna B. Gillen; Michael E. Percival; Lauren E. Skelly; Brian J. Martin; Rachel B. Tan; Mark A. Tarnopolsky; Martin J. Gibala

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111489

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Three Minutes of All-Out Intermittent Exercise per Week Increases Skeletal Muscle Oxidative Capacity and Improves Cardiometabolic Health

Jenna B. Gillen,

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Michael E. Percival,

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Lauren E. Skelly,

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Brian J. Martin,

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Rachel B. Tan,

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Mark A. Tarnopolsky,

Affiliations Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Martin J. Gibala

* E-mail: gibalam@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Three Minutes of All-Out Intermittent Exercise per Week Increases Skeletal Muscle Oxidative Capacity and Improves Cardiometabolic Health

Jenna B. Gillen,
Michael E. Percival,
Lauren E. Skelly,
Brian J. Martin,
Rachel B. Tan,
Mark A. Tarnopolsky,
Martin J. Gibala

Published: November 3, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111489

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Posted by Dantes on 15 Dec 2014 at 20:24 GMT

This is quite interesting to me on a personal level age 57. I've found that exercise once a week using a HIIT approach for 3-4 hours...12 machines, 200 reps in 50 rep intervals each machine, seems to have gotten me in shape a lot more than the three day a week schedule I used to use. I hope you next pursue looking at the minimum necessary interval for training to stay fit.

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Three Minutes of All-Out Intermittent Exercise per Week Increases Skeletal Muscle Oxidative Capacity and Improves Cardiometabolic Health

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