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Can I benefit from exercising in shorter intervals?

It depends on what you are doing to benefit from exercising in short intervals. Weight training is a good example; you can benefit from short intervals targeting a certain muscle area. You would have to do more strenuous exercise for longer in order to benefit from it and to actually burn all the stores of fat.

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