>Finally! I can get my entire workout done in one minute' and that's kind of missing the point.
I can't agree with you more. However, I think this shows the importance of going hard. When I am at the gym and I see these people leisure peddling a bike while reading a book or a magazine, I just don't get it, why bother at all? Peddling slowly for 40 minuets isn't going to do jack. If you go to the gym go all out, push yourself as hard as you can until you body fails. Then rest and push until it fails again. Work through the failure. If you aren't wobbling out of the gym then you failed.
Perhaps (and saying this with a big caveat) that's exactly why we need better research and more subtle research into the subject. Plus didn't the research say that the HIIT group had the same increases as the 45 minute 'leisurely' group? So it did work equally well, just slower.
If you aren't wobbling when you leave the gym.... why? Masochism and absolutism around exercise is one of the strangest things to me. What if you need to walk properly the next day because looking like a weirdo at work will get you demoted. Maybe your work demands that you be physically coordinated and not broken, like factory work. Maybe you have kids and need to relax, not destroy yourself. Maybe you're 50 and want to get exercise in but don't want a heart attack. Maybe your knee joints are screwed. Maybe exercise should be fun, or skills based rather than 'exercise until you fall over is the only way'.
I can't agree with you more. However, I think this shows the importance of going hard. When I am at the gym and I see these people leisure peddling a bike while reading a book or a magazine, I just don't get it, why bother at all? Peddling slowly for 40 minuets isn't going to do jack. If you go to the gym go all out, push yourself as hard as you can until you body fails. Then rest and push until it fails again. Work through the failure. If you aren't wobbling out of the gym then you failed.