Exercise 150 Minutes A Week, Any Way, Any Time

The good news is that it doesn’t matter how you get it, or even when you get it. The bad news is you have to get it: 150 minutes of exercise a week. HealthDay reports that researchers at Queen’s University in Kingston analyzed the exercise habits of more than 2,300 Canadian adults and classified then as either frequently active (five to seven days a week) or infrequently active (one to four days a week). The researchers found that, in terms of risk for diabetes, heart disease and stroke, those who did 150 minutes of exercise on just a few days of the week were no less healthy than those who worked out more often. That’s right; people who did no physical activity on Monday to Friday but was active for 150 minutes over the weekend got the same health benefits from their activity as someone who did 150 minutes of activity over the week by doing 20 to 25 minutes of activity on a daily basis. Read more from HealthDay.  Read an abstract of the study here.