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Interval Training

A topic within Endurance & Conditioning, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Health, Fitness & Human Performance.

Reading on Interval Training

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Paper2008

Metabolic Adaptations to Short-term High-Intensity Interval Training: A Little Pain for a Lot of Gain

Martin J. Gibala & Sean L. McGee

Argues that a few minutes of very hard intervals trigger many of the same mitochondrial and oxidative adaptations as hours of traditional endurance training.

Paper1996

Effects of Moderate-Intensity Endurance and High-Intensity Intermittent Training on Anaerobic Capacity and VO2max

Izumi Tabata et al.

Tests an exact twenty-seconds-on, ten-seconds-off protocol on trained cyclists and finds it raises both aerobic and anaerobic capacity, a result now widely mis-marketed as a general four-minute workout for any population.

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