The One-Minute Workout: Science Shows a Way to Get Fit That's Smarter, Faster, Shorter Kindle Edition

We have a choice when it comes to our workouts, we can follow the traditional guidelines or get the same benefits from Interval Training. Most don’t have the time for the 150 minutes a week, but few can claim they don’t have 30 minutes total to get the same results. What surprised me most was how many athletes from the 50s and 60s used Interval Training, time tested, yet most people today are unaware of the huge benefits to Interval Training that takes a small fraction of the time we currently use for training, and to achieve the same results is the icing on the cake. Yes, I would recommend and have recommended this book to others.

As a senior citizen who has been into working out and exercise for more than 7 decades I have probably tried just about every program and system (Weight training, Circuit training, Military/SEAL exercise systems, Boxing workouts, MMA workouts, Tactical aerobics, HIIT/Tabata systems, Yoga stretching routines and many others) on the market today.I was checking as on line lately searching for some new fitness books I may have missed over the years and came across this 263 hardcover volume (The One Minute Workout: Science shows a way to get fit that’s smarter, faster shorter by Martian Gibala, Ph.D., with Christopher Shulgan) on Amazon for a bargain price.Even though I was quite familiar with various kinds of HIIT and Tabata type workouts and have been doing them for many years; nevertheless, I found this book to contain valuable information on the research conducted into short intense workout routines that I found very interesting and informative.This book also contains 8 interval workouts and 4 micro workouts which show a wide variety of ways to do intense short productive workouts. This book is organized into 9 chapters covering the following topics:Fit in just minutes a week, how intensity works, how it all got started, beyond simple fitness, high-intensity engagement, fun and fast: eight basic workouts, how long can you go? Four potent micro workouts, high-intensity nutrition and the perfect exercise for you.I have always favored hard intense non-stop kind of workouts and even at my advanced age I still do Tabata and HIIT type workouts 3 days a week plus other workout routines another 3 days (6 days a week workouts) a week. If you enjoy doing short intense workouts that produce great results in both aerobic capacity and body strength you may want to check out this book. I loved it.Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Tactical Principles of the most effective Combative Systems).

This is a superior reference for persons with or without the time to exercise. The focus is on exercise science and the growth of high intensity interval training, to improve health. However, the primary aim of the research leading to the recommendations is the endpoint of cardio respiratory fitness. The is an admirable aim . Exercise is also known for activating a large number of adaptive molecular pathways involving inflammation, repair, growth, sleep, and general metabolism. It can normalize autonomic balance ....in the right doses. I don't criticize the author for not getting into the weeds....just sayinn'. Anyway, I don't give it five stars...just because. Just about everyone should read this and find a way to incorporate some it's excellent workouts into the week.

Dr. Gibala demonstrates through convincing research how very little high intensity exercise is needed to provide the same benefits as much longer moderate endurance exercise. It's a paradigm shift

Before you read this you're thinking "one minute workout? Yeah right" and that's where the trouble starts. This book is about efficient exercise in as little time but it comes off as fadish. There are no one-minute exercises in this book, all workouts are 10-30mins long. This is a well-researched book by a respected authority on the subject of exercise and this book represents the benefits of HIIT (High intensity interval training).His stated goal is to make exercise available for everybody by making it easy and time I wish he had the same goals for this book as well.For example, this book doesn't explain what's the difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise and jumps into which exercise uses which modeHe also has a confusing array of exercises and given the options you end up wondering where should you start or do.Even in exercise details, he starts with background and an image of what the interval looks like but near the end of each exercise he tells you who should do this and that's when you realize its core people above 60 or power athletes etc. this section should be first so you can understand if you need to read this or not. Even better it should just recommend what exercise you should follow if you're getting started and your or in an older demographic, or have access to a gym or if you're an athletes etc.The book makes the same point multiple times trying to prove again an again that HIIT works and gets very repetitive after the 5th study. We're sold on the book, what we need is to hear a simple "this is what I mean by efficient exercise and this is what we need to do" and we'll do it and the results is the proof that matters.My recommendation is to go through the exercises in this book, select one that suits you, you're probably well off skipping everything else.