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Getting Fit in Six-Minute Intervals? Swimming Rats May Hold the Answer |
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Written by Raul Reis
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Tuesday, 07 July 2009 08:19 |
Fitness & Health CornerWe start today a semi-regular column on fitness, health and wellness issues. Being a social and fitness-oriented swim team, the Grunions are particularly interested in spreading the word on new trends, discoveries and tips on these areas. Our goal with this column is to provide a valuable service to all team members who want to be well informed about fitness and health issues.
The column, which we plan to publish at least once a month, will include original stories and interviews, as well as links to interesting articles previously published by trustworthy sources.
To get us started, I'm pasting below a link to an interesting story published by the New York Times on June 26. Scientists and fitness specialists have long believed that only long workouts can have a long-lasting positive effect on an athlete's endurance.
It seems that now many of those scientists are questioning that old mantra, and they are trying to find out if it is possible to get some of the same fitness benefits with much shorter (but strenuous) workouts at regular intervals. Lo and behold, they're using swimming rats(!) to test their hypothesis.
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