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Feb. 2022: I came across the following quote from an article on Mercola.com, which will be taken down soon. Dr. Mercola is discussing Dr. Frank Shallenberger’s work on improving mitochondrial function. Dr. Shallenberger specifically called out strength and interval training as being beneficial.
“Resistance training is really important, especially for the over 60 crowd. For lean body mass-types of reasons, for resting metabolic reasons, it’s very important. But it doesn’t do what classic aerobic interval training does …For normal people, not athletes, to maintain good mitochondrial function, what you need is two 30-second intervals [where you go all-out, max exertion], followed by about four or five minutes of rest between the two, done three times a week. That’s hardly anything … [but] it’s every bit as good as any of the harder exercise routines.”
This is a very reasonable and approachable goal – two hard intervals, three times per week.
Remember, recovery is where strength is built.
