Welcome back to Get Fit Guy.

Coach Kevin Don here.

This week I want to touch on something you may or may not have heard tell of.

The exercise snack.

Like the small amounts of food that you eat between meals, the exercise snack is a similar idea.

Little bits of exercise when you can't have the full meal. We want to take a look at if it can be as

beneficial to you to have these small exercise snacks throughout the day or week as it is to

spend more traditional gym time on training. First off, we need more information on what an exercise snack is. It's born of the

same concepts as hit, high intensity interval training. The difference being that in hit, you do

very short, highly intense bursts of movement, followed by short rest periods over and over.

With exercise snacking, you do short, high-burst

efforts of exercise with much longer rest periods, with hours in between. A good quote I saw on the

topic said that with exercise snacking, instead of restructuring your day around exercise,

you're restructuring exercise around your day.

The advantage here is that you can just take an exercise snack whenever you have a free moment.

I can see how this could be really appealing to busy people.

Work, family commitments, maybe even traditional gym access can be barriers to getting some daily fitness in.

So I'll get into some examples of what exercise snacks could be in a moment, but for now,

let's have a look at the purported benefits.

In one study, participants performed traditional hit on a stationary bike, did three sets of 20 seconds

all-out sprints, followed by two minutes of rest.

Another group did the exercise snack version of this, where they did the same three sets of 20

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