Dedicating an hour or two of your day to exercise isn’t always an option. Sometimes things are just too busy, the day is just too short and your motivation too lacking. If this is the case, you don’t need to abandon exercise all together – 30 minutes is all you need.
Slogging it out for hours at the gym isn’t the only way to go. You can conveniently and effectively enjoy the benefits of exercise by doing just five short 30-minute workouts a week. (Research shows that exercise for a total of 150 minutes a week will generate health related benefits).
The secret is to make sure that the 30 minutes you spend working out is carefully structured.
One study, published in The American Journal of Physiology took sedentary, overweight men and put them into different groups: One group that exercised for 60 minutes a day, one that exercised for 30 minutes a day and a control group that did no exercise. The findings were surprising: After three months, both exercise groups lost a similar amount of weight, even though the 60-minute group burned twice as many calories during the workouts.
So, why would you lose the exact same amount of weight if you’re doing half the amount of exercise? There isn’t a particular response, however professionals presume that the 60-minute group overcompensated for their exercises by eating more and resting more. This is a typical problem with brand-new exercisers and a discouraging one as exercisers either don’t see results at all or, even worse, end up gaining weight because they’re consuming more calories than they realize.
Researchers recommend that 30 minutes might be more manageable for non-exercisers, not just because the exercises are much shorter, however due to the fact that these more moderate exercises leave exercisers with enough fuel in the tank that they don’t feel the requirement to eat more or rest more after a workout.
While veteran exercisers might require more than 30 minutes to keep their weight, this info may offer newbies the support they need to begin exercising.
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