Rhonda Patrick· PhD
I discuss why high-intensity interval training is superior for glucose regulation
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I discuss why high-intensity interval training is superior for glucose regulation
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so what high-intensity interval training does that makes it more potent for doing that is it engages a larger amount of muscle mass like you mentioned it increases our utilization of glucose in the skeletal muscle so it kind of increases the sensitivity of the muscle to take up glucose because you're utilizing it larger amount of muscle mass larger amount of glucose trans Transporters and more glucose picking up into the cell so essentially you know that's another reason I think why high-intensity training and resistance training too like we'll talk about later but are great for glucose regulation maybe much more so particularly compared to to Zone 2 training
if you're again comparing the volume of exercise being the same and comparing sort of a continuous lower to moderate intensity exercise with high intensity interval training or a more vigorous type of exercise there's you're going to have more improvements in glucose regulation with the higher intensity exercise