14 DAY TRIAL // Weekly exercise sessions are more than enough to help people stay fit and healthy, a team of Canadian researchers say.
These specialists maintain that, after comparing the overall health condition of people who only exercised once every seven days to that of people who exercised several times a week, they reached the conclusion that there were no major differences between these two groups of people.
Otherwise put, those who spend most of their time at the office can make up for not working out the entire week by exercising either on Saturday or on Sunday.
If it all sounds a tad too good to be true, that is because there is a catch: the weekly workout sessions that promise to help people be almost as fit as those who jog each and every single day have to be at least 150 minutes long.
This means that, all things considered, those who choose to only exercise once a week have to cram several workouts into a rather exhausting exercise session if they wish to get noteworthy results.
“For instance, someone who did not perform any physical activity on Monday to Friday but was active for 150 minutes over the weekend would obtain the same health benefits from their activity as someone who accumulated 150 minutes of activity over the week by doing 20-25 minutes of activity on a daily basis.
“The important message is adults should aim to accumulate at least 150 minutes of weekly physical activity,” Dr. Ian Janssen comments on the findings of his and his colleagues' investigation, as cited by Daily Mail.
The Canadian researchers reached the conclusion that people can make up for missing out on their daily exercise routine with the help of a weekly intense workout after monitoring the overall health condition of 2,324 men and women whose ages ranged from 18 to 64.
Some of these people exercised on a daily basis, while others only pushed themselves once a week or so.