Exercise is good for your overall health and your heart in particular.
But does it matter when you do this exercise? Should you spread it out in the week or does it lose some of the benefit if you cram it in at the weekend?Around 90,000 healthy, middle-aged people wore wrist bands that tracked their activity. It recorded their activity levels for a week with particular attention to moderate-to-vigorous activity .
It didn't matter when it was done, moderate-vigorous physical activity was associated with improved heart health. For example, washing the dishes is 2.5 mets, vacuuming is 3.3 mets and walking at 3mph is 3.5 mets. To put this into context, cycling at 15mph on the flat is 10 mets. The other point about this study is that these people were not sports people or athletes but rather normal middle-aged people doing their normal activities, some of which included exercise and some of which were normal activities measured on an accelerometer.
The relationship between exercise and heart health is simple: the more you exercise the greater the improvements in your health. This study did show that doing some physical activity is better for your heart than being sedentary, which is an important message for the many people not managing 150 minutes of moderate activity a week.
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