Lose weight with just 3 minutes of high-intensity exercise per week

No time to go to the gym, too tired to move after get off work, it is very easy for modern people to find excuses to avoid exercise. They just say they don’t have time. However, researchers at McMaster University in Canada have developed a high-intensity training study and found that only 3 minutes of intense exercise per week can achieve the effects of lowering blood pressure and losing weight, leaving people with no excuses not to exercise.

Since 2005, researchers have advocated that high-intensity exercise training can achieve the same effects as general exercise, but this remains to be proven.

The British BBC reported that the National Health Service (NHS) recommends that people do 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of high-intensity exercise per week to achieve the effect of strengthening the body; however, since 2005, McMaster University has developed a high-intensity training method, which requires 3 minutes of exercise per week and the time can be adjusted at will, 30 seconds each time, for a total of 6 times, or 20 seconds each time, for a total of 9 times. Researchers point out that for modern people who have to live a busy life, it may become the mainstream sport in the future.

Jamie Timmons, a professor of systems biology at Loughborough University, was the first to find 300 overweight subjects to experience this exercise method. However, researchers who have experienced it personally said that after four weeks of high-intensity training, their blood pressure and maximum oxygen uptake had obvious changes. Their weight did not decrease during the exercise, but it dropped by 2 pounds when they stopped exercising. The researchers speculated that the reason why this method can have a good effect is that rapid and intense exercise can trigger hormonal responses and regulate the "interaction" between the liver, muscles and fat tissue, while protecting the body from high blood sugar.

In the past, the United States has conducted surveys on the length of time people spend exercising and found that most people prefer short-term quick-acting exercise to several hours of hard training. However, before formal research on this type of intense exercise is released, it is best for people not to try it lightly to avoid adverse effects on cardiopulmonary function.