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> It's a huge stretch to say that the volunteers engaged in 1 minute of hard exercise. Active recovery just means staying in some sort of minimal motion to kee
by Alex3917 11y ago
> It's a huge stretch to say that the volunteers engaged in 1 minute of hard exercise.
Active recovery just means staying in some sort of minimal motion to keep your blood circulating and let your heart rate come down a little more gently. It's usually nowhere near the intensity of regular base cardio, so I think the headline is reasonably accurate.
- Retric 11y agoThey could not sustain this rate over 1 minute. So, it's 10 minutes of interval training with 1 minute of high intensity. Not, 1 minute of working out. They also did not check to see if people 'capped out' sooner.