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Auspowern on the weekend as healthy as daily training a week
Regular exercise is healthy and makes you fit. In addition, sport is helpful in losing weight. However, many people fail to complete their training sessions during the week. Scientists have now discovered that exercise is good for health, even when it's less frequent - but then it has to be more intense.
Intense exhaustion at the weekend
Most experts agree that sport is good for health. Among other things, regular exercise can help to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension or heart attack. In addition, athletes suffer less often from obesity or obesity. But many people do not manage to do sports regularly because of lack of time. Researchers have now found that the lack of exercise during the week can be compensated at the weekend.
If you can not find time for regular exercise during the week, you can compensate for the lack of exercise at the weekend. The sport must then be more intense. (Image: ARochau / fotolia.com) Risk of premature death is reduced
The researchers found in the study that people who barely move during the week, and instead exhaust themselves properly at the weekend, thereby lower their risk of premature death.
As reported by the research team in JAMA Internal Medicine, weekend athletes had a lower risk of dying of cancer or cardiovascular disease than inactive people.
Significantly lower health risks
The study was carried out by researchers from Loughborough University in the UK, the University of Sydney (Australia) and Harvard University (USA), the British university reported in a statement.
To reach their conclusions, the experts examined the health and physical activity of more than 63,000 adults over the age of 40, and evaluated the deaths and their causes during the study period.
It was found that those who exercise regularly, the health risks were significantly reduced and less common with cancer and cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack or stroke.
Thus, intensive sports on the weekend had almost the same health benefits as daily physical activity.
Half an hour a day
The World Health Organization (WHO) advises adults between the ages of 18 and 64 to exercise at least 150 minutes per week in medium intensity or 75 minutes in intense intensity.
Ideal is half an hour of moderate exercise daily. The way to work offers itself as a training session. But not all professionals can cycle to work, and the discipline for morning jogging or visiting the outdoor pool is not upset by many.
Therefore, some people especially the weekend used to power out. They are therefore also referred to as "Weekend Warriors" ("Weekend Warriors").
Follow or surpass sports recommendations
"It is very encouraging news to know that physical activity is associated with a lower risk of death on just one or two occasions per week, even among those who are somewhat active but can not reach the recommended level," he said Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis of the University of Sydney in a statement.
"Nevertheless, it is always advisable to follow or surpass the physical activity recommendations to benefit from the optimal health benefits of the exercise," said the expert. (Ad)