3 minutes a week could change your life

Ex Marine George Hood age 56 just broke his old planking record in China. New record 4 hr and 1 min......ouch
My record is 4 min after working up from 2, 4 yrs ago..
My abs look similar to his, but with much less work...

He also does 20 sets of 100 crunches a day when training.

http://www.chinadail...nt_17610449.htm

Another study: Same great results:
Introducing the One-Minute Workout...
New research published in the journal PLOS One shows sedentary men and women who did one minute of intense, all-out exercise as part of a full 10-minute workout three times a week for six weeks improved their endurance and lowered their blood pressure.

A total of 14 sedentary and overweight men and women agreed to have their muscles biopsied and their aerobic endurance and blood pressure and sugar levels measured by researchers at McMaster University in Ontario. Then, they hopped on stationary bikes and warmed up for two minutes. After the warmup, the participants biked as hard as they possibly could for three 20 second intervals followed by two minutes of slow pedaling. They ended with a three minute cool-down, adding up to a total of 10 minutes. They did this three times a week, coming out to 30 minutes of exercise a week.
This isn't the first time researchers from McMaster University have touted the positive effects of short bursts of high-tensity exercise. Martin Gibala, the chairman of the department of kinesiology at McMaster University, has spent years studying the benefits of high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and whether it's equally beneficial as moderate exercise over a longer period. In fact, high intensity interval training has become somewhat of a mainstay in the fitness circuit, many also crediting Japanese researcher Izumi Tabata for coming up with the The Tabata Protocol: 20 seconds of intense work followed by 10 seconds of resting, repeated many times.

MORE: Short bursts of exercise are better than exercising nonstop
And a new study found that people with Type 2 diabetes benefited more from interval walking—their blood sugar was more controlled—compared to people who walked continuously.
"Walkers can incorporate interval training by warming up and walking for three minutes and jogging for one minute and repeating that pattern for let's say, 30 minutes."

Edited by Rogerdodger, 15 December 2014 - 02:33 PM.