Have you heard of exercise snacks?

Little bursts of physical activity, sprinkled into your day.

Now, it is super easy to discard this idea, because to gym pros, doing less than 5 minutes of exercise sounds absolutely worthless.

However, we know that a large percentage of adults do not meet the physical activity guidelines.

And we also know that one of the most commonly reported reasons for not being physically active is a lack of time.

So, perhaps exercise snacks could be a valuable solution for those of you are can’t squeeze in a full gym workout.

At the moment, the research is very much in it’s infancy, but it is likely possible to increase your fitness levels by doing short sprint bursts, multiple times per day, or improve your strength and mobility or increase muscle mass as well.

Clearly, the idea here is not to interrupt your day with inconvenient exercise choices. Don’t interrupt your dinner date to bang out a set of push ups in the toilet, you know?

But, if we can get people going from zero to doing a little bit of exercise, it might be a useful stepping stone to increasing that.

Because going from 0% to 5% is often the hardest bit. Going from 5% to 10% is sometimes significantly easier.

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References:
- Barriers and facilitators to physical activity for young adult women: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative literature
- Motives and barriers to initiation and sustained exercise adherence in a fitness club setting-A one-year follow-up study
- Sprinting improves aerobic fitness: Sprint exercise snacks: a novel approach to increase aerobic fitness
- Exercise Snacks and Other Forms of Intermittent Physical Activity for Improving Health in Adults and Older Adults: A Scoping Review of Epidemiological, Experimental and Qualitative Studies
- Brief bouts of device-measured intermittent lifestyle physical activity and its association with major adverse cardiovascular events and mortality in people who do not exercise: a prospective cohort study

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