But for maximum fat loss, I recommend four to seven days per week of cardio or
other vigorous physical activity for 30 to 45 minutes (based on results) at a moderate pace.»
There's no hard and fast rule about it, but the researchers suggest 75 minutes of intense cardio activity per week, such as running, a spin class, or
other vigorous physical activity.
Not exact matches
They add: «The greatest reduction in risk of developing metabolic risk factor clustering observed for intermediate levels of
physical activity and leisure time sitting was unexpected and suggests that moderate amounts of both moderate - to -
vigorous physical activity and leisure time sitting may be sufficient to protect against developing metabolic risk factor clustering over time... The lack of protection for the most active adults may reflect a chance finding, or confounding by
other factors such as wider use of prescription drugs by participants in less active groups.
In
other words, older adults who did more moderate to
vigorous physical activity perceived less facilitation of pain, while those who did at least some
activity were better able to block pain perceptions.
Vegan participants in research studies are often more likely to engage in
vigorous physical activity, and less likely to consume alcohol, than meat eaters or
other types of vegetarians.
We also determined the results of stratified analysis by age group (< 60 years vs ≥ 60 years), sex, race / ethnicity, educational attainment (< 12 vs ≥ 12 years),
physical activity (≥ 5 times / wk of moderate - intensity vs
vigorous activities vs
others), HEI score (top 50 % [score ≥ 63.5] vs
other), and BMI (normal vs overweight / obese).
The covariates included race / ethnicity (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Mexican American, or
other), educational attainment (< 12, 12, or > 12 years of education), smoking status (never, former, or current), alcohol consumption (0, < 3, or ≥ 3 drinks / wk),
physical activity (0, < 5, or ≥ 5 times / wk of moderate - intensity to
vigorous activities), BMI (< 25, 25 to < 30, or ≥ 30), family history of CVD (yes / no), and antihypertensive medication use (yes / no).
This has been looked at in - depth in America and it has been shown that pupils who performed
vigorous physical activity at a level that met or exceeded the US Healthy People 2010 guidelines achieved higher academic scores compared with the
other pupils.
Research on
physical activity suggests that you can burn up to 200 calories an hour engaging in
vigorous sex.1 And besides burning calories, sex has many
other health benefits.