Arthur De Vany (above) is 70 years old. He is a living example of the success of his Evolutionary Fitness methods.
Evidence is mounting that the proponents of Evolutionary Fitness are absolutely right.
Aurthur De Vaney, Dr Al Sears (PACE) and Christian Finn have all been arguing for (and designing their fitness systems around) the principles of evolutionary fitness: the idea that short but intense bursts of exercise, the sort we would have experienced fleeing from predators in the evolutionary past, are the key to fitness and well-being.
Last week CBC Radio’s Quicks & Quarks reported on experiments at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh that support this idea.
From CBC Radio | Quirks & Quarks | January 31, 2009 :
No Sweat Workout
Are you tired of being out-of-shape? Want all the health benefits of being an athlete, but can’t commit to all those grueling hours in the gym? Well, now you can work out in just a few minutes a week! Yes, it sounds like another one of those fly-by-night fitness fads, but there’s some pretty solid evidence that short, intense bursts of exercise do have some pretty impressive effects. Dr. Jamie Timmons, an exercise biologist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, has been looking at how little exercise we can do and still get the protective benifits of being active — specifically, prevention of diabetes and heart disease. Dr. Timmons has found that doing a few 30-second sprints on a stationary bike, twice a week, is as effective at preventing disease as much more time-intensive regimes.
Download the entire radio program here [22Mb MP3].
