Exercise snacks — what brief vigorous bursts actually do

movement · Nature Medicine, Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2022

Brief vigorous movement bouts — often just 15 to 120 seconds — can improve fitness and metabolic outcomes, and are linked with lower mortality when embedded into ordinary life.

Authors

Emmanuel Stamatakis, Martin Gibala, Jonathan Little, and others

Research lens

Brief vigorous movement bouts — often just 15 to 120 seconds — can improve fitness and metabolic outcomes, and are linked with lower mortality when embedded into ordinary life.

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  • movement
  • cardiometabolic health
  • longevity