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If you train hard with short bursts of intense exercise, your body gets better at using oxygen — and if you’ve done this before and then start again, you don’t get any extra benefit from having done it in the past.

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The study found that people got just as much better at using oxygen during exercise whether they had trained before or not — so past training doesn’t make you improve more the second time around.

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