Accumulating 3-4 minutes of VILPA per day is associated with large reductions in health risks.

“The featured segment explores the VILPA study, which demonstrates that even short bursts of vigorous intensity exercise — mere minutes per day — seem to deliver surprisingly robust benefits.”

“Even brief bursts of intense movement totaling just 3–4 minutes per day—known as vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity or VILPA—have been associated with a 20% reduction in cancer risk.”

“So that would suggest that even brief, non-exercise, vigorous, intermittent physical activity can move the needle in terms of health outcomes.”

“But three or four minutes of VILPA is about 30 minutes of vigorous activity a week and large reductions in risk.”

“the vigorous intermittent lifestyle activity where people are accumulating these short bursts of a couple of minutes throughout the day all the way I think they accumulate up to between 6 and 9 Minutes of that you know those short bursts of intense actually exercise more intense yeah yeah no it's very interesting research and there of course they're using the objective accelerometer so they're not relying on the person's recall and they get a better indication of that but yeah if you're engaged in this type of vigorous intensity exercise even if it's only for a minute here couple minutes there depending on how much you accumulate during the day there's going to be beneficial effects to that”