The good news is: You can get the benefits of cardiovascular and aerobic exercise in just 60 minutes a week.
Here's how to do it. You exercise intensely for one minute and leisurely for another minute. Work up to a total of 20 minutes three times a week.
The American College of Sports Medicine recommends getting moderate exercise for 30 minutes five days a week. But that comes to two-and-a-half-hours!
The good part of the One-minute deal is that after 30 to 60 seconds of pushing yourself, you keep moving but at a leisurely pace. If you want to do more, you can rest for between 30 and 60 seconds, then push toward the intense phase again.
New studies show the program is as effective as more minutes of exercise and can be equally safe.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.