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Get ready in five minutes

Nothing sums up modern life better than the name of a current Japanese TV game show: Get up, have breakfast and get ready for work in five minutes.The new fad is for HIIT - short for High-Intensity Interval Training whereby just twelve minutes of very intense activity is supposed to be 3 every bit as beneficial as conventional exercise.It's supposed to get you fitter in a considerably shorter period of time than conventional exercise routines.Not only are activities getting 1 significantly quicker, but our assumptions are changing, too.Advocates of HIIT training claim that it can burn fat up to 450% more effectively than low-intensity exercise.They also maintain that it speeds up metabolism and so makes you burn more calories throughout the day.A recent survey suggests we now walk 10% faster than we did ten years ago.But have our personalities changed, too?

Get ready in five minutes

Nothing sums up modern life better than the name of a current Japanese TV game show: Get up, have breakfast and get ready for work in five minutes.

Does this sound like your life? Do you get the feeling that everything is accelerating? Not only are activities getting 1 significantly quicker, but our assumptions are changing, too.

Take exercise: we used to think that 2 the longer we spent on, say, a pleasurable walk in the countryside, the more good it did us. Not any more. The new fad is for HIIT - short for High-Intensity Interval Training whereby just twelve minutes of very intense activity is supposed to be 3 every bit as beneficial as conventional exercise. Get on that rowing machine and keep it short and sharp! It's supposed to get you fitter in a considerably shorter period of time than conventional exercise routines. Advocates of HIIT training claim that it can burn fat up to 450% more effectively than low-intensity exercise. They also maintain that it speeds up metabolism and so makes you burn more calories throughout the day. However, some recent research would appear to dispute these claims.

But have our personalities changed, too? Smartphones allow us to access information in no time at all. Research demonstrates that 80% of people will not wait more than thirty seconds for a video to load. A recent survey suggests we now walk 10% faster than we did ten years ago. It seems we even start to get annoyed after five seconds waiting for the car in front of us to start moving when the traffic light turns green. Over time, we have come to expect everything to be available 5 infinitely more quickly than in the past. We have far less patience. We've forgotten how to slow down. Welcome to modern life.