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I agree, I don't think these kind of 'easy' wins are all that common in real life, certainly not those offering 300x improvements. I would like to see some better examples.
Entrepreneurship / business seems likely to be relatively fertile ground for finding good examples since short term financial gain can often be used as a relatively good proxy for 'success' and is relatively easy to measure. Too much focus on short term financial gain isn't always an optimal strategy even in business however since it may result in getting stuck in local maxima or directly compromising longer term success.
Squatting heavy once a week will make you stronger than almost everyone at almost everything, younger, healthier, leaner, smarter*, richer, prettier; takes about fifteen minutes. How does that compare to your current exercise regimen?
*http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000465
**http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0197-4580/PIIS0197458005002745.pdf
I was already persuaded by the evidence that strength / weight training is a more time efficient and effective route to overall fitness and health than extensive cardio but I'm not familiar with the specific arguments in favour of squats. The first link doesn't seem to highlight squats specifically and I didn't read the second yet (behind a required registration). Are you saying that heavy squats specifically are dramatically more effective than other approaches?
I haven't had a regular exercise regimen for a while but I'm just starting to try and get back into strength training, mainly focused on body weight exercises as I don't like gyms and I can do them easily at home.
Time shouldn't be that much of an issue if you're interested in functional improvements in your strength. I mean, if it's functional, you should be doing it anyway - so just do it more or provide more resistance. For instance, you can put your car sit horizontal, then do situps when you get to traffic lights.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/phys-ed-how-much-exercise-to-avoid-feeling-gloomy/
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/can-you-get-fit-in-six-minutes-a-week/
this is very weird to read on this forum, but yes, it's a good idea.
Your second link is broken, even for people access; worse, it doesn't give the citation. I think that this (ungated, alt) is the study.