Fitness Friday

The Amount of Time You Walk Matters More Than the Time You Sit

A study at Orebro University in Sweden have discovered that the amount of time you exercise matters more than the amount of time that you are sedentary.

Researchers at a Swedish university have discovered that the amount of active time matters more in improving cardiovascular health of elderly patients than the amount of time spent sedentary. The study looked at women over the age of 65, due to the lack of activity among all other age groups, and studied the effects of activity on their corresponding risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The study researched 120 women who had a medical examination over the course of a week, and had their fitness activity measured with an accelerometer. The research concluded that the stress of a particular fitness activity determine the risk of mortality more so than the amount of sedentary activity. In other words, if a person is jogging and another is walking, the one jogging will have a decreased risk of mortality regardless the extent of wither activity.