Get Up And Do Something: Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six

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Why Four Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six Feb 15th 2013, 11:34 A common concern about exercise is that if you don't do it almost every day, you won't achieve much health benefit. But a commendable new study suggests otherwise, showing that a fairly leisurely approach to scheduling workouts may actually be more beneficial than working out almost daily. For the new study, published this month in Exercise & Science in Sports & Medicine, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham gathered 72 older, sedentary women and randomly assigned them to one of three exercise groups. One group began lifting weights once a week and performing an endurance-style workout, like jogging or bike riding, on another day.

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