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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/03/fashion/03Fitness.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5070&en=99e487b21884fba6&ex=1179201600&emc=eta1

The above link to a recent story in the NY Times discussing the "surprising" benefits
of introducing intensity into your weekly workout.

A group of fit and sedentary athletes participated in a study to compare the effects of
lower intensity training and higher intensity interval training.

The results were striking similar for fit and non-fit alike; significant improvement in 
just a couple of weeks in the following:

* Endurance - how about that?  Training more intensely also build endurance!  Jeez!
* Fat burning - meanwhile standard training dogma says you gotta train slow 
to supposedly burn fat.
* Ability of heart and lungs to deliver oxygen to the muscles.  Again, standard coaching
regurgitation is to explain how slow training builds capillaries that improve ability to
deliver oxygen to the working muscles.  

Of course we who practice M2 training methodology have known the above to be true for 
many years now.  My indoor cycling classes is perhaps the broadest proofpoint, where we 
have had virtually every ability represented in class.  Novices, Iroman professional 
champions, age-groupers, and heck, even a Tour de France Champion.

In any case, interesting to see mainstream thought begin to see a bit of light on more
thoughtful ways to train than mindless repetition of training mantras that are at odds
with real-world experience.