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Old 02-26-2007, 12:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Machine promises equivalent of 90-minute session, but fitness experts scoff

Updated: 5:42 p.m. ET Feb 12, 2007


TORONTO - The promise is attractive: a sweat-free four-minute workout that will give you the same results as a grueling 90-minute session at the local gym.

A Canadian company is making that silver-bullet pledge as it attempts to build a chain of store-front exercise havens for people who don’t have the time or inclination for more traditional fitness methods.

Fitness experts warned that nothing is that easy.

The company, H.I.T, has opened its first exercise shop in the underground city beneath Toronto’s financial core. It contains five narrow stalls, each housing a range-of-motion machine — nearly $13,000 each — and little else besides coat hooks for time-strapped members who choose to slip out of their jackets and work out in business clothes.

H.I.T says it plans to open hundreds of such locations in Canadian cities within five years with membership dues comparable to traditional gyms.
“For most people this is their only form of exercise because they can’t find time in the week to spend an hour, hour and a half, at the gym,” said Julie O’Brien, director of operations at H.I.T.

Fitness experts say the company’s bulky H.I.T Fit cross trainer, which looks like a slightly scrunched elliptical trainer stuck to the back of a rowing machine and centered around a flywheel, cannot replace more traditional methods of exercise.

Little calorie burn
A high-intensity four-minute workout on the H.I.T machine may build muscle tone, they say, but calorie burn will be relatively meager.

“There’s no quick fix to gaining fitness or to exercising without sweating,” said Jack Goodman, a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Toronto.

“Well beyond the field of exercise, one should be wary of any claim that tries to do something in four minutes that typically would take hours.”
O’Brien said four minutes aboard her company’s machine is equivalent to 45 minutes of resistance training, 30 minutes of running and 20 minutes of stretching.

And while the workout burns just 40 to 50 calories, she said the lingering effects of its high intensity will burn an additional 500 calories over the next 24 hours.

Steven Blair, a professor in the department of exercise science at the University of South Carolina, said high intensity training could increase the length of afterburn. But he dismissed claims of 24 hours.

'Largely nonsense'
“It’s largely nonsense,” said Blair, an internationally recognized authority on exercise and its health benefits. “I’m going to remain pretty skeptical until I see data from a well-controlled study published in a quality peer review journal.”

H.I.T’s Web site cites a research paper on the long-term benefits of high-intensity training. But company president Morry Patoka acknowledged that the paper had not been published in any journal and was a compilation of different sources.

While the four-minute workout is taxing enough to leave even a fit participant gasping for breath, the longer-term benefit is still unclear.
“It’s a lot of hype and not a lot of of substance,” Goodman said. “Short of saying it’s useless, which I wouldn’t, the claims that they make go probably beyond the reality of what’s sustainable.”

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Old 02-26-2007, 01:26 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I'm wondering what one of these $13,000.00 machines looks like.
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I'm wondering what one of these $13,000.00 machines looks like.
Like this?

http://www.fastexercise.com/
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Looks like a modernized medieval torture device ...
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I ordered the 'Informative DVD' on this a few months ago, cuz I was curious as to how this thing worked. I'll take my FREE Tabata burpees, thank you! What a scam! That was an hour of my life I'll never get back...
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Funny. On another website a question was asked "Why does it take an hour long video to explain a 4 minute workout?"
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I've already got a 4-minute workout that is way too much fun to replace with that piece of crap. And sometimes, like anniversaries, I turn it up a notch and might make it a 5-minute workout.
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I've already got a 4-minute workout that is way too much fun to replace with that piece of crap. And sometimes, like anniversaries, I turn it up a notch and might make it a 5-minute workout.


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Hey, watch it. Those are the best 4 minutes of her month, I guarantee ya.
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Hey, watch it. Those are the best 4 minutes of her month, I guarantee ya.
Or so you say...
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Those things are advertised in the back of either Men's Fitness or Men's Health...I've seen them before.

How many weights could you buy for $14k?
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4 minutes, once a month, stop bragging and tell us all your secrets
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I thought I'd seen that thing advertised somewhere

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i don't even want to know...
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Here is the company's official site:

http://www.hitfit.ca/index.html

They actually use 2 machines...




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*Images (which included descriptions) were taken straight from their site. I do not believe in any of this.
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I thought I'd seen that thing advertised somewhere

You know I just had to click on the link LOL just call me sucker
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You gotta watch those shifty Canadians, hey.
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I thought I'd seen that thing advertised somewhere

Hey, this should cut a minute or so off your time, RL. Get you back to SportsCenter quicker.
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Well I'll give them the benefit of the doubt with the 'best workout you can get in four minutes' line. But the best most people can do in four minutes ain't near enough.
My gym has four of these bad boys, (which are still huge in Korea):

but strangely the people using it don't look like the models in this pic. I don't think lack of results is a good enough reason for most people to stop a workout that is 'effortless'.
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The problem is that too many people who workout are trying to take the work out.
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that thing looks more like a time travel machine than an exercise machine
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The problem is that too many people who workout are trying to take the work out.
Classic Mahler, classic.
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I dont get how any form of exercise can be both high intensity, and not produce sweat.
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After that, I just let nature take its course. Then I flush and join RW in the bedroom. Works every time.
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After that, I just let nature take its course. Then I flush and join RW in the bedroom. Works every time.
You are a sexy beast Red! I don't know how Red Wifey can keep her hands off of you.:p
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I know. I mean, I light the candle and everything. Gotta set the mood.
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But do you sing "Your my angel" to her too???
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Dutch oven, Red. You may get up to 8 minutes a month. Now that's some serious fat loss there.
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