It is clear that modern life has brought us many comforts, the evolution in virtually all sectors of the work of the last 150 years has caused the physical activity of humans to change significantly, that if on the one hand it downloads us and leaves us more time for leisure and fun, also has its "dark" side of sedentary lifestyle that is damaging our health, so experts recommend staying active, but How much exercise should we do to stay healthy
Do you know how much exercise we really need?
How much exercise should we do? It is a good question because the answer would depend on many factors such as age, physical condition and type of work but in general according to the International Health Institutions it would be advisable to dedicate about 150 minutes of moderate physical activity to week and as a moderate physical activity would mean walking at a brisk pace, swimming and even other daily activities that require moderate effort, such as mowing the lawn, of course whenever you cut it with the manual lawn mower, the one that you have to push.more prepared the time could be reduced to only 75 minutes a week by increasing the intensity of the exercise , this would be running, following aerobic classes of the step or spinning type.
And since the benefits for health obtained in 150 minutes of training are equip Arable to those obtained in half the time by increasing the intensity of them, the scientific journal Plos One, has wanted to go further by doing a study in which the training was reduced just 4 min!
3 times a week for 10 weeks, in which participants submitted their physical abilities to the limit of effort .The result was also Satisfactory for health .But, unfortunately the study was not comparative for what has been criticized by scientists, such as Nuria Rosique Esteban , of the University of Nutrition Human of the Reus Institute, which concludes from this study that exercise favors health for a short time that we dedicate without being able to determine its greater or lesser efficiency n relationship with standard training models.
On the other hand, what if has been proven is that people who, due to the type of work they do, have a longer life sedentary without practicing any type of sport, for example those who work in studios and offices where an average of 40 hours per week sit, have more risks of developing vascular, overweight and heart problems, while they decrease in those that work in factories, warehouses, stores, etc. where the body remains constantly active for the same average of 40 hours per week without performing any extraordinary exercise outside its work environment.
So the secret would be to keep moving as long as possible throughout the day , changing our comfortable customs a bit, walking instead of taking the car for short journeys, climbing the stairs instead of the elevator and even doing housework personally can be a good way to keep fit without exceeding the effort, to get take about 10,000 or 15,000 steps a day.
Are you willing to try it? Did you know how much exercise you need really?
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