Settle down on sofa for Horizon on BBC 2 (intellectual types only obvs)

[ClaraDeLaNoche]

Feet up. Ready to learn about the theory of exercise.

I'm watching this too.

That intense 20s spinning looks quite scary. I guess evolutionarily cavemen would have had those intense bursts when hunting a woolly mammoth or something.

I'm waiting for the summing up because at the moment this seems to contain quite a few contradictions.

And I'm liking this NEETing

Yes I must NEET more. Hard though when you're stuck at work though.

Do you think we need a fancy exercise bike or could I do short laps around the kitchen?

But Clara, you could stride purposefully up and down corridors whilst on the phone like he was doing.

Short laps round the kitchen sound fine as long as you nearly kill yourself whilst doing them, of course.

Very interesting and very pleased that plodding away at the gym or going running was largely dismissed as pretty useless. I wondered if just dancing furiously to a song a day would be enough

I also had a diabetic parent (Type 2) so need to think about this quite seriously.

Might out me but my DP is one of those "group of international scientists" who has been researching HIT - in fact I've even been to Jamie's for tea.

Dp hasn't given up his running and replaced it with HIT though....

DP suggests runs up steep hills rather than round the kitchen...

Ooh Gin was Jamie the Scottish guy?

On another note, is Michael Mosley related to The Mosleys?

So, who else is a non-responder then?

We need the blood tests. And now we know just who to ask.

So, is there any way to get involved in one of these studies?, I would willingly offer myself to be tested on for fitness related stuff

Yes jamie is the scottish guy- very nice bloke irl too

Goodtimes- where are you? Dp looking for subjects all the time.

Not sure if recruiting via mn 100% ethical though!

Is Jamie in Glasgow or Loughborough?

Neither just now

Shame because I live in one of them. Was going to ask you to ask Jamie to pop round with the bike and the needles.

He hasn't been fired, has he?

No-not fired, just moved on.

Phew.

Gin I am in Leicester. My other half is also keen!

If you want to get involved then googling jamie possibly your best bet- don't know if he'd appreciate colleagues partner sending him subjects! Not close to dp either unfortunately.

It's those pesky science ethics.

I would love to take part in trials and have a sneaky suspicion that I am a non responder. Fascinated by the change in insulin resistance.

I'm in North Wilts if you need a willing subject ?

Have any of you got off the sofa yet and given this a go? I've been running x-country between 2-8 miles most of my teen and adult life. I just did 3 sets of 20 seconds flat out on my husband's barely used exercise bike and never has a 20 second spell stretched on so long. It was incredibly hard to go properly flat out for such an apparently short space of time. I thought I was fit! Anyone else?

It looked hard to co-ordinate. Did you find your legs went...well...funny?

I don't have an exercise bike nor am I in a gym. Do you think running on the spot as hard as you can would have the same effect?

I do short bursts on my small weights whilst I'm cooking staring at soup warming up. A minute feels like agony. Does that count, or have I actually got to move my arse as well? (My arms are like nutcrackers.)

What I don't understand (and what DP can't answer!) is that without a glucose tolerance test you can't tell whether your glucose response is normal or not - so how can you tell if it's doing you any good? His response was that for people who've been identified as being at risk of type 2 diabetes it will probably help - but surely that requires a GTT??

I don't think running on the spot would be good enough - running up a steep hill would.