Recent data data is showing you can do as little as 3 minutes of exercise a week, and get as good insulin response benefits and VO2max benefits as if you’d jogged for hours. (Though, you don’t get the calorie or muscle mass benefits.)
My layman’s understanding is that you’re triggering your body’s “oh #@$! bears live here” function, so it makes sure you can run from bears in the future, even if you don’t encounter them all that often.
That link describes an exercise regime that takes 30 minutes a week, and then later one that takes ~10 minutes a week. (Of which only about 1⁄3 is “high intensity”, but the rest is part of it too.)
Those are still impressively low numbers, but let’s not exaggerate.
My original exposure to Gibala was a later study that’s not listed in the above link, where they were trying to see if the effects would still remain even if the gentle pedaling was removed. They did, but I can’t find a link to it.
Edit: Though the longer ones are more effective. IIRC the most effective one is 50 mins and not 30, even though the above article claims 30.
Minimum viable is an interesting phrase.
Recent data data is showing you can do as little as 3 minutes of exercise a week, and get as good insulin response benefits and VO2max benefits as if you’d jogged for hours. (Though, you don’t get the calorie or muscle mass benefits.)
My layman’s understanding is that you’re triggering your body’s “oh #@$! bears live here” function, so it makes sure you can run from bears in the future, even if you don’t encounter them all that often.
That link describes an exercise regime that takes 30 minutes a week, and then later one that takes ~10 minutes a week. (Of which only about 1⁄3 is “high intensity”, but the rest is part of it too.)
Those are still impressively low numbers, but let’s not exaggerate.
My original exposure to Gibala was a later study that’s not listed in the above link, where they were trying to see if the effects would still remain even if the gentle pedaling was removed. They did, but I can’t find a link to it.
Edit: Though the longer ones are more effective. IIRC the most effective one is 50 mins and not 30, even though the above article claims 30.