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Intervals or steady cardio: what head-to-head trials found for VO2max
Short hard intervals or long steady sessions? In healthy adults both raised VO2max, intervals by about 1.2 ml/kg/min more. In heart disease the big early gap shrank or vanished in larger trials, and no trial has shown that the choice changes survival. What was measured, in whom, and what it does not say.
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