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Say goodbye to long workouts! New study shows that short exercises improve life expectancy

June 4, 2021

A new study has shown that shorter spurts of exercise help people live longer when compared to those who undertake long-duration exercises.
The study was conducted on more than 16,000 participants wearing an accelerometer to track their movement.
The participants consisted of women above the age of 60, and having an average age of 72 years.

The greater the frequency of steps you take every day—especially when they are in shorter spurts—the greater longevity; a new study shows. While walking in moderate phases of about 10 minutes has a positive impact on life expectancy; it’s the shorter strolls—especially when there are a lot of them—that contribute the greatest to longevity. The findings of the study were reported to the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology, Prevention, Lifestyle, and Cardiovascular Health Conference. Lead author of the study, Chris Moore, had this to say about the findings: “This is just one study, but it suggests that there is a lot of flexibility in the way people can accumulate physical activity throughout the day. A lot of people think you need to go to the gym and have long bouts of continuous exercise, but you can be active without going to the gym. And that’s more feasible for a lot more people, especially those like the participants in this study who were older women. Older adults have a lot of barriers to doing more structured exercise.” Moore is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The study shows that people can get enough exercise to improve their life expectancy by simply increasing the distances that they walk by small amounts. For example, one can do this by parking slightly further away from a building in order to walk more to their workplace. Earlier studies on this subject had relied on people’s memory to report how much walking they had done. But the findings of this new research were based upon an experiment whereby 16,732 participants in the Women’s Health Study—a national study that focuses on disease prevention—were given an accelerometer. The device was worn to capture the participants’ movement for four to seven days from 2011 to 2015. All the participants in the study were aged over 60—with the average age of the participants coming in at 72. A majority of the participants were non-Hispanic white women. During the analysis, the researchers grouped the total number of steps that each woman took into two groups; those taken during bouts of 10 or more minutes with minimal interruptions, and those taken in short spurts while going through daily activities such as walking to the car or climbing the stairs. Moore and his associates closely monitored the women; recording their deaths for an average of six years all the way through to December 31, 2019. By the end of the study, a total of 804 deaths had occurred. Interestingly, the women that had taken more steps but at shorter spurts lived longer; even in cases whereby these steps were taken randomly. The study also showed that women with the greatest improvement in life expectancy were those that took 2000 or more short steps in durations of 10 minutes or longer. These women decreased their risk of death by up to 32% Long story short: the study encourages people to get exercise in whatever way possible throughout the day. No matter how brief they are!

References: https://www.today.com/today/amp/tdna219079

Say goodbye to long workouts! New study shows that short exercises improve life expectancy

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