Science-Based 7 Minute Exercise

Alex

We know, we know. We should exercise more. But who has the time to go to the gym?

American College of Sports Medicine's Health & Fitness journal just squashed that excuse with this: a set of 12 exercises with only body weight, a chair and a wall that takes only 7 minutes of your life. Best of all, it's all based on science, as Gretchen Reynolds of the New York Times' Well Blog summarized:

“There’s very good evidence” that high-intensity interval training provides “many of the fitness benefits of prolonged endurance training but in much less time,” says Chris Jordan, the director of exercise physiology at the Human Performance Institute in Orlando, Fla., and co-author of the new article. [...]

The exercises should be performed in rapid succession, allowing 30 seconds for each, while, throughout, the intensity hovers at about an 8 on a discomfort scale of 1 to 10, Mr. Jordan says. Those seven minutes should be, in a word, unpleasant. The upside is, after seven minutes, you’re done.

Link [the Scientific paper] - via The NY Times' Well Blog


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I agree with you that good science is done outside of academia. But a scientific paper does not open with an advertisement for a commercial enterprise, as this particular one does. There may be interesting and worthwhile information in this publication, but it doesn't meet the widely-agreed-upon criteria of a scientific publication. In the abstract, the authors claim no conflict of interest. If there was any functioning peer review, the advertising language in the introduction would not have made it to publication. The authors do have a very serious conflict of interest: they are overtly advertising the "Human Performance Institute, Division of Wellness and Prevention, Inc., in Orlando, FL" in florid prose (e.g., "From our work with elite performers, we have learned that managing energy is the key to sustaining high performance."). This is a trade publication, and that is fine. But to call such a thing science dilutes the meaning of the word.
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Oh no, don't discount the fact that the study is done outside the hallowed halls of academia as being unscientific a priori - there's plenty of good science being done in commercial entities (like biotech companies, for example).
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I was interested in the scientific paper itself, so I clicked. The paper begins: "At the Human Performance Institute, Division of Wellness and Prevention, Inc., in Orlando, FL, our clients are high-performing professionals from a variety of industries.". So, no, it is not a scientific paper.
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It's for digging holes.

You step on the flat tabs around the top to drive it into the ground like a triple shovel. You attach a rope to the eye in the middle and pull up to remove the device from the hole. Pulling in the center causes the hinged center bits to contract; the curved rods holding the top together slide through their fittings enabling the top to expand; the whole construction grasps the dirt it surrounds enabling you to pull all that dirt from the hole.
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It is a form used to make barrels. By compressing the handles on the inside, it expands and retracts the wooden panels from the inside of the barrel as it is being made.
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From the three handles, I would guess it's used to stretch something, but it can't be barrels because it's too small. Maybe it makes small barrels?
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As the previous poster said, it's for digging holes...more specifically, I believe it's for digging water wells. It would be lowered into a well on a rope and a worker or workers at the bottom would step on the tabs to press it into the soil to get another bite. When pulled up with the rope (tied to the center loop) the bottom closes together pulling the soil up with it.
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I reckon its something for keeping your tophat in shape. Much like the fancy gadgets that you can put in your shoes or boots to keep them in shape.
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Upon closer inspection, it would be difficult aerodynamically for this design to dispell air efficiently, but very able to raise, lower and CHURN fresh cows' milk into a thick slurry that, upon refrigeration, would thereafter be called Butter.
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I think it was used to fill bags. Put it in the bag and it would hold it open while filling. Then upon retraction by the center eye the sides of the device would pull in a bit allowing removal of the device.
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Its a retention device for lifting (or lowering) cylindercal objects like pipes with one rope or cable. It goes in the cylinder, spread the tangs, rope or hook goes in the eyelet.
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At 11" in diameter it would be too narrow to stretch a top hat. The handles inside seem to push the wooden blades out, not in, so it wouldn't be for gripping and wooden blades wouldn't work for digging. I think it is much like a shoe tree but made to keep the upper segment of riding boots in proper shape.
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