Australian scientists show that short-lived "explosive" physical activity that is not associated with purposeful exercise in daily life is associated with reducing the risk of death caused by various reasons.
Latest data shows that adults must comply with the standards of 150-300 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise or 75-150 minutes of high-intensity exercise every week. This takes all the action into consideration, not just going to the gym or jogging in the stadium. This suggestion contradicts previous recommendations, which insist that short physical activity (less than ten minutes) does not provide much health benefits.
Although intense exercise takes less time - you can drink iron in the gym for an hour and start your work - they are not attractive to most middle-aged people. A brief "explosion" physical activity during the day, that is, it can be "intermittent" and can become an output. It takes less time, and in addition, no special training and exercise equipment is required.
Scientists at the University of Sydney (Australia) have tested how "attacks" of daily life affect long-term health, as well as the risk of death, cardiovascular disease and cancer caused by various causes. Their research was published in the journal Natural Medicine.
Emmanuel Stamatakis team analyzed data from 25,241 people stored in the UK Biobank: their average age is 61.8 years old, their body mass index is 27.6, smokers account for 9.2% and men account for 43.8%; each person sleeps about 7.4 hours a day, while no one performs a lot of exercise in their spare time. Participants wore special bracelets with an accelerometer to track the activity.
In general, each person's daily exercise time is 138.3 minutes, including 98 minutes of low-intensity exercise, 25.9 minutes of medium-intensity exercise, and only 4 minutes of high-intensity exercise. The observation lasted an average of 6.9 years, with 852 deaths during the period.
Results show that participants who performed one to two minutes of "explosion" physical exercise three times a day had a 38-40% chance of dying of any cause and cancer, and a 48-49% chance of dying from cardiovascular disease. %, in contrast to people who did not show any special activities at all. Surprisingly, if the “outbreak” lasts for 4.4 minutes, the risk of death from various causes and cancer is reduced by 26-30%, while cardiovascular disease is reduced by 32-34%.
"When we repeated the above for 62344 members of the UK Biobank who participated in sports, we got similar results (1552 deaths; 35290 women, 27054 men). Short-term strenuous exercise not associated with exercise was associated with a significant reduction in mortality," the scientists said.
Therefore, for adults who don't want to go to the gym on purpose, a few times a day is enough to "active" for a few minutes. The researchers stress that their findings should be considered when formulating various recommendations. Furthermore, it should be emphasized that people can still benefit from health benefits even if they do not consider themselves a model athlete.
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