Can’t Find Time to Work Out During the Week? Try the Weekend!
Study author Professor Yafeng Wang of Jiangnan University in China stated, “We found they had similar all-cause and cause-specific mortality, suggesting that when performing the same amount of physical activity, spreading it over more days or concentrating it into fewer days may not influence outcomes.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that American adults aged 18–64 get at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 75 minutes of vigorous activity a week, but only 23% of Americans get this much exercise. For those that struggle with finding the time to get that much exercise, this study proves that you only need to carve out an hour or two out of your weekend for exercise, and you will get similar health benefits as those who exercise every day.
Between work obligations, family time, and everything else that comprises our busy schedules, it can be difficult to find time to go to the gym for exercise even once a week, let alone every day. However, new research suggests that exclusively working out on weekends boosts your health almost as much as working out every day. Research published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that those who exercise in one or two sessions during the weekend lower their risk of premature death as much as those who spread their exercise throughout the week. Both groups are less likely to pass away due to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and other killer diseases than those who do not exercise regularly. Researchers studied more than 350,000 American adults for over a decade and looked at an earlier analysis from more than 63,000 Brits by another team to come to this conclusion.
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