It’s well-known since ancient times that sport means a healthy lifestyle, but it’s exciting to see that even nowadays, there are new updates to the famous correlation….CONTINUE READING...CONTINUE READING
A large study of researchers who were led by the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Maryland, now reveals that you might be at reduced risk of early death if you get engaged in regular physical exercise using weights, according to The Guardian.
If you want to get even more benefits for your health, you can pair that weight lifting with aerobic activities. According to previous studies, doing some level of physical exercise will result in helping manage weight, improving the health of your brain, strengthening the muscles and bones, and more. In other words, regular physical activity easily represents one of the best things to do in life.
How much you should exercise
While just about any amount of physical exercise is beneficial for a person’s health, the new study tells us exactly the minimum of how much time we should engage in such actions. At least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity each week is the minimum. If you want to go for vigorous-intensity activity, the minimum amount is represented by 75 minutes per week.
Data from around 100,000 adults who were over 70 years old were analyzed. The participants were asked about how often they get engaged in physical activity. Almost a third of them qualified as “sufficiently active.” The researchers followed the participants over a period of almost a decade.
It was found that those participants who had been doing weightlifting had a 9% lower risk of mortality. Regular weightlifting was associated with a 14% lower risk of death, while those who were engaged in aerobic activity were 32% less likely to go through an early death.
The new study was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine….CONTINUE READING
