Frequently Asked Questions
Below is a transcript highlighting the FAQ's from the audio.
Question: Can I really only exercise and lose weight in only 12 minutes a week?
Answer: "Yes. It's not about time, it's about changing physiology. You know those people that you just hate who can eat anything they want and are fit? Most of them spend 0 minutes a week working out, yet they are in great shape because their physiology is working for them, not against them. That's the idea in 12 minutes a week...we can get your physiology working again and get you in phenomenal shape."
Question: Twelve minutes a week doesn't seem like it's really going to generate the kind of benefits we're all looking for.
Answer: We want to do things that boost our physiology and get us burning fat and loosing weight. Where those long, long classes and long, long walks at low intensity actually cause a negative effect on physiology long term.
It's really less about the time and more about what you get from the time spent. It's more about what happens after working out than it is what happens during working out.
Question: Instead of doing 12 Minutes of exercise a week, can I just complete all 12 minutes in one day?
Answer: That would be nice, but no. It really is actually, three minutes of expired exercise time per day, four days a week that makes this kind of change.
Question: Why doesn't the world know about exercising in 12 Minutes a Week?
Answer: The world is beginning to know more and more about it. But it really is science. In all the years I was studying and working with Olympic teams and working with professional teams, one of the things we knew for certain was that something called interval training, where there's a varied amount of intensity. So where there's a certain slow period, and there's a certain intense period.
We've known for years and years that it was only interval training that really changed performance in studies. This is really a more intensive more focused type of interval training.
Question: Isn't Interval training only for elite athletes?
Answer: It's actually quite the opposite. No matter what age you are. No matter what your body type is, this "12 Minute Revolution" is really the workout for you. It's always important to check with your doctor and make sure you're safe to exercise.
One of the things that does makes this much safer is that there is much less stress on your body doing this type of exercise.
It's long duration exercise that really leaves your body with a lot of high bad hormones instead of high good hormones. It's those bad hormones that really age you and make you sore and make you hate exercise over time.
It's really incredibly safe and this is the big reason for that. During the interval, during the time when you do your max output, it's really a max output for you. My max output will be different than your max output.
It's going as hard as you can but it's also for really short periods of time. Only 20 seconds at a time is all you're doing this for. So it really is quite safe.
Question: Is there any specialized equipment or machine needed?
Answer: That's the really cool part especially in this economy. The last thing somebody wants to hear is you've got to go join a gym for 60 or 100 bucks a month or go buy the next piece of exercise equipment that you leave in your living room and you throw your towels on. The cool thing is this can be done with virtually no equipment at all. Done at home, done in your office, done while the kids are taking a nap. Done virtually anywhere, done in your car at a stop light, whatever you're doing.
You can do this because it really could just be running in place. You could go to Wal-Mart and pickup a pair of two and a half dollar dumb bells. It's really simple. You can use stairs at home. You can do it while going for a walk. Do it while jogging around your neighborhood or on your bike.
Really virtually any type of exercise you enjoy, you can do surge training. You can do this "12 Minute Revolution" program doing stuff you like.
Question: Incredible. So, let me just summarize briefly and make sure that I've got this. In 12 minutes a week, or three minutes a day, four days a week, I'm going to be producing through this short duration, high intensity workout, good hormones that are going to have a long lasting effect on my body throughout the rest of the day and, in fact, throughout the rest of the week. And those good hormones are going to help reshape my body the way it was meant to be, provide me higher levels of energy and fat burning capabilities, and help me overcome depression, increase my libido and lose weight, again, in 12 minutes a week? Do I have that right, Dr. Lerner?
Answer: That's exactly right.
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