Performing less than the full 270 minutes of soleus pushups may still benefit blood glucose regulation and metabolism.

“Soleus Pushups (a name the authors gave to non-weighted seated calf raises); “A potent physiological method to magnify & sustain soleus oxidative metabolism improves glucose & lipid regulation” = some pretty remarkable & outsized positive effects on glucose & lipid utilization.”

“Soleus push-ups may indeed be a powerful tool for improving metabolism.”

“This study had people continuously do soleus pushups and they looked at things like blood glucose utilization, they looked at metabolism and so on.”

“The point is that people who did these soleus pushups experienced dramatic improvements in blood sugar regulation and in metabolism despite the fact that the soleus is just 1% of the total musculature.”

“if you're simply trying to add a bit more fitness and metabolic health to your overall regimen, soleus pushups, at least to me, seem like a very low investment, simple, zero cost tool to improve your metabolic health.”

“seems to me that doing less would still be beneficial and that you don't necessarily have to do the full 270 minutes in order to get the benefits that they observed.”

“But there's a study that came out of University of Houston recently having people do, now, this is a long period of time. Four hours a day of, basically, a soleus pushup, which is basically a heel raise. A seated catchphrase with one foot not weighted. And then they looked at it a bunch of things about glucose metabolism and glucose clearance and insulin levels. And they didn't conclude that people burned a ton of calories, but what they concluded was that blood sugar regulation improved greatly.”