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If healthy young men do intense rowing workouts for 8 weeks (about 2 months), doing short 1.5-minute bursts at very high intensity 3 times per week, they can significantly boost their aerobic fitness - improving their exercise endurance by about 17% and their peak power output by 12-23%.
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The study used the exact same training program as the claim describes and found that it did produce large improvements in aerobic capacity - exactly what the claim says would happen. Both groups who did the training showed big gains in test time, max power, and anaerobic threshold.
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