News flash: some recent studies out this month strongly suggest that physical activity is beneficially for health.
Now that you’ve had some time to get used to this new-new fact, here are a couple of studies with not-surprising results about fitness and health.
Strength training before endurance training confers more benefits (IN MEN).
A study of 45 young men found small changes in bone health, body composition and overall physical fitness by switching up the order of strength training and endurance training (lifting weights first, then running).
As Miss Manners likes to say, how nice for them.
Small changes in physical activity make a big difference in overall mortality-risk (when you’re looking at the population-level).
Again, the messages here are clear: small increases in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and 30-60-minutes decreases in sedentary time daily reduce mortality risk from 3% (cutting sedentary time) to up to 10% (increasing physical activity by 10 minutes a day in certain subpopulations– it’s a little complicated here). But this is the bird’s eye view, meaning this holds for big populations and not at the individual level. You can peruse the actual study here (in your copious free time, but maybe stand up while doing it…)
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