Briefly walking up a steep hill counts as exercise. Image courtesy of Greg Balfour Evans/Alamy
Joel Kontinen
Exercise
could add years to your life. This is
the conclusion some scientists have just made.
People who
do several very short bouts of strenuous activity each day are much less likely
to die in the next few years than those who do not exercise at all.
If you don’t exercise for the sake of exercising, doing five or six vigorous activities, each lasting just 10 seconds or so every day, can make a big difference. A study in the US has found that people who did a total of just over 1 minute of vigorous activity each day were much less likely to die of any cause in the following six years than those who did none.
Only around
15 per cent of adults exercise regularly, says Emmanuel Stamatakis at the University of Sydney in Australia.
“The majority of tyears he adult population find it hard, or they’re
not keen, or they’re not able to integrate regular exercise in their day-to-day
routine.”
Source:
Michael Le Page 2025
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