The Key to Working Out: Immediate Rewards

Sure, 40 minutes of cardio three times a week may reduce risk of heart disease some forgettable percent over some forgettable number of years, but is that calculation really going to get you to the gym? Probably not. Here, according to researchers at the University of Michigan, is a calculation that will: exercise and you’ll feel better, now. HealthDay reports that when researchers at the university’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender questioned a randomly selected set of 385 women, 40 to 60 years old, about the importance they placed on long-term goals (weight-loss) and on short-term goals (quality of life, stress reduction) of exercise, they found that those who went for short term were considerably more likely to exercise. What’s considerably? Fifteen to 34 percent more often.