Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy.

And in today's episode, you're going to learn whether a 20-minute long once-a-week workout actually works.

Now, I recently read an article in Inc. Magazine called Why This 20 Minute Once

a Week workout is the best thing ever for office workers. Well, with one eyebrow raised at the

hyperbole, I nonetheless delved into the article and discovered that it explains the science and

the practice of a specific type of exercise training that I personally implement, and I've found to be

really time efficient. I actually did it this morning, and I'm going to help you discover now

exactly what that style of movement is and how to get the most bang for your exercise buck

in just 20 minutes. Now, in the article, the author describes her growing frustration over being

strapped to a chair all day at the office

unable to adequately exercise, and then her amazement upon speaking to her 50-something-year-old

fit hairstylist who goes to a place where she's strapped into special exercise machines,

wears her regular clothes, doesn't break a sweat, and performs a full-body workout in 20 minutes.

She then goes on to describe something called high intensity, slow motion strength training,

in which you would do something like, say, a machine leg press, but you'd only do one single set,

and you would take a very long, drawn out all the muscles in my body burning time to perform that set,

like doing nine reps over three minutes. You'd then hit every

other major muscle group from upper body to core with just one single hard teeth gritting,

super slow set, and voila, within 20 minutes, you're done. Better yet, according to a study in the

British Journal of Sports Medicine, this style of training can actually work, at least for older adults

who need to maintain strength. In that study, a group of subjects, 65 to 79 years old, were

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