Length of workout doesn’t change enjoyment level
Posted May 31, 2018 6:58 am.
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Interval training versus traditional exercise. When do people feel better?
Matthew Stork, a PhD candidate in the school of Health and Exercise Sciences at University of British Colombia’s Okanagan campus, says they took this test to the lab.
In a study, published in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, they followed 30 men and women over eight weeks as they performed traditional, or moderate intensity exercise, and then two types of high-intensity interval training (HIIT.)
“All three protocols were the same, so they had equal preferences for the HIIT and interval protocols in comparison to your traditional forms, even though they were more high intensity and (there were) more negative feelings during the exercise,” he said.
Stork said they were also interested to learn that 79 per cent of participants completed HIIT on their own outside the lab.
