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The Scientific Principles Of Exercise

To understand how much, or little, exercise you need to do to meet your own health or fitness goals, it may be helpful to consider the following scientific principles behind most tailored exercise programmes.

Frequency
This relates to how many times a week you need to exercise in order to become fitter or improve or maintain your health. To be healthy, experts recommend being physically active on at least five days out of seven.

Intensity
The intensity at which you work can be described as either strenuous, moderate or mild. What constitutes a strenuous, moderate or mild exercise workload for you will depend on your current state of health and fitness.

Duration
This is the length of time you need to spend being physically active in any one session. According to much of the research conducted over the past 20 years, you need to be active for up to 30 minutes, five days a week in order to benefit your health.

Putting it all together
The recommended physical activity guidelines from a range of expert bodies (including the Health Development Agency in the UK and the American College of Sports Medicine) suggest that to improve your health you should build up to being physically active at a moderate intensity for 30 minutes, five days a week.

A little goes a long way. The key message to take home is that any physical activity, no matter how small, is better than none.

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