If your excuse not to do physical activity is the lack of time, you must find a new one: a study published on Journal of the American Heart In fact, it reveals that it is not important to exercise every day, but do it for at least 150 minutes weekly even in a single day or two. In English they call them Warriors weekend (weekend warriors) and are those people who, often for lack of time during weekdays, concentrate all physical activity over the weekend: Now we know that this mode is also beneficial for our body, and reduces the risk of death from cardiovascular diseases, tumors and other pathologies.
As far as it matters more than when. The study, which involved over 93,400 British between 37 and 73 years of age, analyzed the data regarding the physical activity collected between 2013 and 2015 from the wrist accelerometers of the participants and divided them into three groups: Warrior weekendactive regularly, and inactive. It emerged that those who trained regularly and those who concentrated physical activity in one or two days had a risk of death far lower than those who did not move; in particular for i warriors of weekend The risk of general death was 32% lowerwhile for those who carried out physical activity regularly were 26% lower than the sedentaries.
More beneficial than risks. What discovered partly amazed the scholars, who expected our health to draw greater benefits from regular physical activity. It must be said that a concentrated training on the weekend can be more harmful to the health of our muscles, not used to being stressed so intensely. «Some studies suggest that i Warriors weekend They have a slightly greater risk of suffering from musculoskeletal lesions, but the benefits are still superior to potential risks “, comments Keith Diaz, an expert not involved in research.
One of the main limits of the research is the sample of people who are not very heterogeneous on which it was conducted, almost all white and resident in the United Kingdom. Other aspects of which it will be necessary to take into account in future studies on the topic are the genetic predisposition and environmental factors that may have influenced physical activity and results.
