Can three minutes of exercise a week help make you fit?

1 Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate Exertion

Sixty seconds of intense exercise provided the benefits of three-quarters of an hour of moderate cycling.

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.

How Exercise Shapes You, Far Beyond the Gym

The biggest benefit might be that it teaches people to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.

Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011) | Hacker News

My point with all that is that a traditional gym and a staff trainer can work, provided the trainer knows what she is doing. Everybody is different. I have no particular athletic talent; my only advantage is that I am relatively young. However, what I have is time. There are 168 hours in a week. Devoting 5 of them to fitness is not a big deal. For me, finally getting a professional to train me was what I needed. This may work for others as well.

Physical Exercise Four Hours after Learning Improves Long-Term Memory, Study Shows | Sci.News

A new study in the journal Current Biology shows that physical exercise after learning improves memory and memory traces, but only if the exercise is done in a specific time window and not immediately after learning.

Odd Exercises for Physical Vigor: An Oldtime Strongman's 15-Minute Morning Routine | The Art of Manliness

This old-time workout isn't so much a strength building workout, as something to get the blood pumping and make you feel invigorated in the morning.

A Single Exercise Session May Slow Cancer Cell Growth, Study Finds - Slashdot

The Washington Post notes that past research "indicates that exercise helps some cancer survivors avoid recurrence of their disease." But a new study "offers an explanation of how, showing that exercise changes the inner workings of our muscles and cells, although more study is still needed..." T...

Exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome

Exercise as treatment for adults with chronic fatigue syndrome, What is the aim of this review?, People with chronic fatigue syndrome have long‐lasting fatigue, joint pain, headaches, sleep problems, poor concentration and short‐term memory. These symptoms cause significant disability and distress. We wanted to find out whether exercise therapy can help people with chronic fatigue syndrome (myalgic encephalomyelitis)., Key messages, People who have exercise therapy probably have less fatigue at the end of treatment than those who receive more passive therapies. We are uncertain if this improvement lasts in the long term. We are also uncertain about the risk of serious side effects from exercise therapy., What was studied in the review?, We explored whether exercise therapy can reduce chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms. We searched for studies comparing the effect of exercise therapy with treatment as usual or other therapies., What are the main results of the review?, We found eight studies with 1518 participants. The studies compared participants who received exercise therapy to participants who received treatment as usual or more active treatments such as cognitive behavioural therapy., Participants had exercise therapy for 12 weeks to 26 weeks. The studies measured the effect of the therapy at the end of the treatment and also long term, after 50 or 72 weeks. Participants exercised at different levels of intensity using variations of aerobic exercising such as walking, swimming or cycling., Exercise therapy compared to treatment as usual or relaxation, Participants who have exercise therapy probably have less fatigue at the end of treatment, and they may have moderately better physical functioning. We are uncertain if these improvements last long term because we are very uncertain about the evidence., Participants who have exercise therapy may have slightly better sleep, both at the end of treatment and long term., We are uncertain about the risk of serious side effects and the effects of exercise therapy on pain, quality of life, and depression. This is because we lack evidence or because we are very uncertain about the evidence., Exercise therapy compared to cognitive behavioural therapy, Exercise therapy may make little or no difference to participants’ fatigue at end of treatment or in the long term. Exercise therapy may make little or no difference to participants’ physical functioning at end of treatment, but the long‐term effect on physical functioning is uncertain., No studies looked at the effect of exercise therapy on depression at the end of treatment, but it probably has little or no long‐term effect., We are uncertain about the risk of side effects. We are also uncertain about the effects on pain, quality of life, or sleep. This is because we lack evidence or because we are very uncertain about the evidence., Exercise therapy compared to adaptive pacing (living within limits), Participants who have exercise therapy may have slightly less fatigue and depressive symptoms and slightly better physical functioning and sleep at the end of treatment and long term than participants who have adaptive pacing., We are uncertain about the risk of serious side effects. We are also uncertain about the effect on quality of life or pain. This is because we lack evidence or we are very uncertain about the evidence., Exercise therapy compared to antidepressants, We are uncertain if exercise therapy is better than antidepressants at reducing fatigue. We are also uncertain of its effect on depression, side effects, pain, physical functioning, quality of life or sleep. This is because we lack evidence or we are very uncertain about the evidence., Why is this review important?, Exercise therapy is recommended by treatment guidelines and often used as treatment for people with chronic fatigue syndrome. People with chronic fatigue syndrome should have the opportunity to make informed decisions about their care and treatment based on robust research evidence and whether exercise therapy is effective, either as a stand‐alone intervention or as part of a treatment plan., It is important to note that the evidence in this review is from people diagnosed with 1994 criteria of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Oxford criteria. People diagnosed using other criteria may experience different effects.

There's even more evidence that one type of exercise is the closest thing we have to a miracle drug

Aerobic exercise, which raises your heart rate for a sustained period, is "key for your head, just as it is for your heart," researchers say.

A longevity expert says these are the three exercises we should all be doing regularly

Use these three multi-muscle exercises to build full-body strength and boost longevity

Why Weight Training Is Ridiculously Good For You

For strength and longevity, resistance training may be the best kind of exercise

Why you shouldn’t exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies

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Why you shouldn’t exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies

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The healthiest people in the world don’t go to the gym

If you want to be as healthy as possible, there are no treadmills or weight machines required. Don’t just take my word for it—look to the longest-lived people in the world for proof.