High Intensity Intervals Make You Smarter!
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Train with high intensity interval as you age to become smarter.
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A new Canadian study from the Montreal Heart Institute found significant increases in cognititve function as well as a decrease in fat and increase in V02 max in subjects who participated twice weekly for four months.
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“Our participants underwent a battery of cognitive, biological and physiological tests before the program began in order to determine their cognitive functions, body composition, cardiovascular risk, brain oxygenation during exercise and maximal aerobic capacity,” Dr. Nigam explained. The cognitive tests included tasks such as remembering pairs of numbers and symbols. To see what was actually happening in the brain, the researchers used near-infra red spectroscopy (NIRS), a technique that works with light (in the near-infra red range) sent though human tissue that reacts with oxygen in the blood (light absorption). It is so sensitive that it detects the minute changes in the volume and oxygenation of blood occur in our brains when we exercise or think. ”
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source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/uom-smm102312.php
Very interesting. A little frustrating that it says the subjects did interval training 2 days a week, but doesn’t say for how long per session. “Resistance training” is weights, yes?
Yes, resisitance training is weights. And it’s frusterating for sure. there are so many interval protocols. Some train as little as 30 seconds followed by a 4 minute rest. Some go for hours. Some still go 8 seconds on 10 seconds off for 5 minutes…So which protocols are they using? For my part, I have observed increase in Heart Rate (HR)recovery on a session to session basis with as few as 3 one minute sub maximal intervals(8/10 RPE, followed by a 2 minute rest). Typically subjects increase HR recovery by 1 Beat Per Minute(BPM) per workout. Not a Guaranty, just a guidline…Not too shabby for 3 minutes of total effort!