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Jack McNamaraThe Conversation |
Fitness advice spreads fast online, but not all of it is grounded in science. Research reveals which popular trends hold up and which don’t.
‘Exercise snacks’ might be only brief bursts of physical activity, but they can have huge benefits for your health.
Men needed to do roughly nine hours of exercise to see a 30% reduction in their heart disease risk – while women only needed to do around four hours.
People hitting 7,000 daily steps had a 47% lower risk of dying prematurely than those managing just 2,000 steps.
The study found the sequence participants performed their exercises had a major affect on how much fat they lost.
Resistance training is a key type of exercise to include when losing weight.