Forget lifting heavy – lifting for longer may be the secret to staying healthy. People should aim to clock up at least 90 minutes of strength training a week, a study has found.
Current UK guidelines say people should aim to do strength training, also called resistance training, at least two days a week.
How long that should last is unspecified, but experts suggest some people may be interpreting that as about 60 minutes. And surveys have found only a quarter of people in the UK are in fact doing any strength training at all twice weekly.
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By contrast, the advice on aerobic exercise – the kind that gets your heart racing, like running – says it should be done for at least 150 minutes a week at moderate intensity, which would be half an hour, five days a week, for instance.
