Paul Saladino· MD
including how even very brief bouts of vigorous movement (think “exercise snacks”) can produce meaningful health benefits.
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including how even very brief bouts of vigorous movement (think “exercise snacks”) can produce meaningful health benefits.
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The solution? "Exercise snacks" or taking opportunities to turn ordinary everyday situations like 'taking the stairs' and making them a form of vigorous, unstructured exercise.
But yeah, I think the key there is, you're right, there may be a double benefit, if you will. All of us should be meeting physical activity guidelines, of course, add these in, sprinkle them in, but there may be a double benefit to a VILPA-like approach or an exercise snack approach in that it simultaneously breaks up prolonged periods of sedentary behavior.
With exercise snacks, it's different. It's you set aside time and they have more of a protocol aspect to them.