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Getting the Right Dose of Exercise - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • A common concern about exercise is that if you don’t do it almost every day, you won’t achieve much health benefit.
  • Some previous studies had suggested that working out only once or twice a week produced few gains in fitness, while exercising vigorously almost every day sometimes led people to become less physically active, over all, than those formally exercising less.
  • Rather, they felt pressed for time and reacted, it seems, by making choices like driving instead of walking and impatiently avoiding the stairs.
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  • For the new study, published this month in Exercise & Science in Sports & Medicine, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham gathered 72 older, sedentary women and randomly assigned them to one of three exercise groups.
  • However, the women exercising four times per week were now expending far more energy, over all, than the women in either of the other two groups. They were burning about 225 additional calories each day, beyond what they expended while exercising, compared to their calorie burning at the start of the experiment.
  • A common concern about exercise is that if you don’t do it almost every day, you won’t achieve much health benefit.
  • Some previous studies had suggested that working out only once or twice a week produced few gains in fitness, while exercising vigorously almost every day sometimes led people to become less physically active, over all, than those formally exercising less.
  • Rather, they felt pressed for time and reacted, it seems, by making choices like driving instead of walking and impatiently avoiding the stairs.
  • However, the women exercising four times per week were now expending far more energy, over all, than the women in either of the other two groups. They were burning about 225 additional calories each day, beyond what they expended while exercising, compared to their calorie burning at the start of the experiment.
  • harima y on 13 Feb 13
     
    Reynolds, Gretchen. "Well Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six Comments." Well Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six Comments. New York Times, 13 Feb. 2013. Web. 13 Feb. 2013. The article tells us that four workouts in a week is better than six workouts in a week. Study shows that women exercising four times per week were now expending far more energy than the woman exercising six times a week. Woman who exercised four times a week burned 225 calories a day. Although losing so much calories is unhealthy, people must realize that being healthy is important. Reynolds, the author of the article conveys how most people who are healthy are exercising four times a week. He also conveys that working out six times a week weakens your body.
  • harima y on 13 Feb 13
     
    These days many people are unfit and should workout more. However, I do believe working out heavily and intensively beyond that person's ability is wrong. Although some scientists believe that working out six times a week is healthy, I believe working out four times a week is better. I do think so because one needs to rest (i.e. having 3 days to rest). Working out six days may produce aching and serious injuries. I do believe, however, that people should exercise because one many live longer by working out.
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