Good News, You Don’t Need To Exercise During The Week, As Long As You Do This
There’s good news for folks that don’t like or can’t exercise during the week as long as you do this. The answer? As long as you go hard on the weekends and get in at least 15o minutes of working out in during the weekend. So, if you can’t find the time to get to the gym or whatever it is you do for exercise benefits, than get ready to go HARD Saturday and Sunday.
Now that we have this useful information we can get down to business and hit it. Were you one of the thousands of Americans that vowed to eat better and exercise more? If so, are you sticking to it here in late February? If your answer is yes, than you are among the very few that have stuck to their new year’s resolution. In fact, studies say that over 70% of people have already given up on it before the end of January.
It’s not too late to get going and exercise more
The benefits of working out and widely known to most of us, but that doesn’t mean it is motivating enough for us to start moving. As someone who has spent a life time battling the weight gain, I have spent the equivalent of years in the gym. That to me is the easy part, the hard part is the dieting that must go along with exercise to ensure good overall health.
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Here’s the good news
It looked at “weekend warriors” . . . people who like to cram all their exercise into a few days . . . and found that’s fine too. The goal just needs to be at least 150 minutes of exercise a week.
That means you could work out 30 minutes a day, five days a week. Or 1 hour and 15 minutes, two days a week. As long as you get those 150 minutes in, it might not matter. Weekend warriors in the study got an average of just under 148 minutes of exercise on the weekend, and it still zapped belly fat and kept themselves in shape.
This last part is the toughest: You may need to work out HARDER if you want to go the weekend warrior route.
Those people did get the same number of minutes in as the five-day-a-week crowd. But their workouts tended to be higher intensity. So, not just a brisk two-and-a-half-hour walk. We suggest it is probably a lot easier to space out your exercise regimen during the week, but it’s nice to know that you can still get the same benefits from a weekend workout or two.
(CNN)