High-intensity interval training for health and fitness: Can less be more?

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1540-1541

  Gaesser, Glenn A ^a   Angadi, Siddhartha S ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS;

EID: 83655193465     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01237.2011     Document Type: Editorial

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