Improve Your Health in Just Three Minutes A Week

Are you feeling time poor and struggling to fit physical activity into your life?

If you are, you are not alone.

Time pressure is a recognised phenomenon that stops a lot of people from being physically active.

But as busy as you are, you can find three minutes a week for physical activity can’t you?

That’s right. Three minutes a week.

Researchers at Birmingham University in the United Kingdom, have demonstrated that our health can benefit from just three minutes of High Intensity Interval Training a week.

The HIIT sessions comprised three 20-second high intensity efforts on three different days.

Here’s science presenter and journalist, Dr Michael Mosley, explaining the protocol of a HIIT session and how it benefits your health:

Other clinical benefits of High Intensity Interval Training include:

• Greater adherence over time by participants.
• Bigger increases in post-exercise fat burning and energy expenditure.
• Greater reduction in total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol.
• Bigger improvements in endothelial function, VO2 max, body mass index (BMI), body fat percentage, blood pressure and glucose regulation.
• Greater reduction of risk factors relating to cardiovascular disease.

There’s a lot to like about HIIT, so now’s the time to allocate three minutes a week to it in your busy schedule.