Runner's World

JUNE 2018 RUNNERSWORLD.CO.UK 011

WORDS: RICK PEARSON. PH

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WARM-UPS

The TIPS YOU NEED to GET UP to SPEED

PERHAPS IT’S TIME TO GIVE high-intensity

interval training (HIIT) a miss. The latest

trend is for LISS: low-intensity steady-

state exercise. LISS torches fat it’s

enjoyable and you’re more likely to keep

doing it. A study by the University of

Bath has found that LISS can be just

as efective as HIIT when it comes to

weight loss. For the study participants

exercised ive times a week at diferent

intensities – half the group worked out

intensely and the other half exercised

moderately. After three weeks both

had lost the same amount of weight.

Another study published in the journal

Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular

Diseases found that ‘prescribing a

higher-intensity exercise decreases

adherence and results in less exercise’.

In other words the softly-softly approach

may be the way forward.

GENTLY

DOES IT

When it comes to training

LISS may well be more

NUTRITION MIND+ INJURY

HEALTH

FITNESS

MIND HOW YOU GO

Tortoises don’t

move fast but they

can live to well

over 100 years so

they must know

something