‘If you’re already working out every single day and don’t have a problem finding the time to exercise, you can still do exercise snacks to grab a few extra percentage point improvements in your aerobic capacity, power output, or race performance.”
The study was done on inactive young adults, do you think that active fit healthy individual who are accumulating much more than the 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week could actually see benefits from exercise snacks like this? Running up a flight of stairs may be enough for the folks in the study to trigger adaptations but for someone who is already fit and active;y training my thought would be that they need more stimulus than a sprint up a flight of stairs to get improvements.
Regardless though it certainly can’t hurt to try, you won’t get less fit by doing them 😜
While I still cherish my regularly scheduled intensive workout (usually 1 hour in the afternoon), I've been incorporating what you refer to as "exercise snacks" (I love that term, by the way!) into my daily routine. I've noticed that short bursts of functional fitness has led to significant gains in strength and especially endurance.
Lifestyle seems to be the biggest barrier to not moving enough.
I’m thankful I’ve had the time and space to structure mine to promote sufficient movement and improve my health while being an at-home dad over the last 5+ years.
While transitioning back to more working, I plan on continuing these lifestyle practices while living more of a “working” lifestyle.
For example, I’ll go outside, do rope flow, run, or climb trees for 20-30 minutes in the morning. Then, I go work for an hour or two.
That 20-30 minutes of movement outside gives me a sharp mind to work and energy for the rest of the day.
‘If you’re already working out every single day and don’t have a problem finding the time to exercise, you can still do exercise snacks to grab a few extra percentage point improvements in your aerobic capacity, power output, or race performance.”
The study was done on inactive young adults, do you think that active fit healthy individual who are accumulating much more than the 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity a week could actually see benefits from exercise snacks like this? Running up a flight of stairs may be enough for the folks in the study to trigger adaptations but for someone who is already fit and active;y training my thought would be that they need more stimulus than a sprint up a flight of stairs to get improvements.
Regardless though it certainly can’t hurt to try, you won’t get less fit by doing them 😜
Not to be contrary to the study quoted but when you are 22 any stimulus works.
If a 22 year old untrained male did curls with 10 pounds his arms would grow.
While I still cherish my regularly scheduled intensive workout (usually 1 hour in the afternoon), I've been incorporating what you refer to as "exercise snacks" (I love that term, by the way!) into my daily routine. I've noticed that short bursts of functional fitness has led to significant gains in strength and especially endurance.
Thank you for posting this. I aim for 25 flights a day while working along with 12,500 steps at a moderate rate.
I’m not going to win an Ultra doing this but it’s something.
Lifestyle seems to be the biggest barrier to not moving enough.
I’m thankful I’ve had the time and space to structure mine to promote sufficient movement and improve my health while being an at-home dad over the last 5+ years.
While transitioning back to more working, I plan on continuing these lifestyle practices while living more of a “working” lifestyle.
For example, I’ll go outside, do rope flow, run, or climb trees for 20-30 minutes in the morning. Then, I go work for an hour or two.
That 20-30 minutes of movement outside gives me a sharp mind to work and energy for the rest of the day.