Why one minute of vigorous exercise beats hours of jogging.

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]a new study came out and I did a journal club podcast on it because it was the study that I felt was so important that we wanted I wanted to break down all the components of the study with um another scientist and talk about them because it's very important. So journal clubs typically in science you have them in my career it was you know sometimes it was once a week other times it was once a month and and someone you choose a study that's important and you break it down and you talk about the results and you talk about the methods and you talk about what the findings mean that's what a journal club is and it's essentially you choose a a journal and a publication within that journal and it's a it's a club you have different scientists that are talking about it because I think this study basically is is strong enough data that it's implying we need to change our exercise guidelines, at least the messaging of them at the very least. And I'll tell you why. Well, a new study came out. Not only did it measure physical activity through these accelerometers, it was able to measure how active people were and the type of activity whether it was I I mentioned moderate versus vigorous, they also me they also measured light physical activity. And what was so profound was that what we found, what they found, and what we now know is that everything changes in terms of how important vigorous intensity exercise is. It's so much more valuable than we thought. It's not 2 to one. So if we're looking at all cause mortality, you know, dying from all causes, cancer, respiratory, anything related that's non-acal, for every one minute of vigorous intensity exercise, you had to do 4 minutes of moderate intensity and you had to do like 100 to 150 minutes of light exercise to get the same reduction in all cause mortality.

[00:01:42]>> For every one minute, >> for every one minute of vigorous intensity exercise, it gets better.

[00:01:47]Okay? For every one minute of vigorous intensity exercise to reduce your death from cardiovascular disease, you had to do eight minutes of moderate intensity and 200 minutes of light exercise for every one minute of vigorous intensity exercise. It's huge.