Rhonda Patrick· PhD
there's a little bit of research supporting it it's not as strong as the moderate to vigorous intensity exercise so if I had to rank them you know that would certainly be above the sedentary um Behavior part of the challenge in those studies it's very very much harder to measure um you know all these little things that people do over the course of the day where they're a little bit better at recalling vigorous intensity and moderate intensity exercise but nevertheless um those movements are going to be beneficial because we know they are going to expend energy so it's going to be similar um to these other exercise benefits and as I mentioned you know we're no longer recommending this at least 10minute duration as the minimum of a of a exercise break so if it's moderate intensity and you're able to accumulate it in a few minutes here in a few minutes there there could be beneficial uh effects of that type of exercise I think there's some evidence showing that as well at least with the um the vpa studies 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