Exercises are better for weight loss than longer workouts

Short Workouts are better than Long Exercise to Lose Weight Naturally.

Less than 30 minutes of exercise better for weight loss than longer workouts. A short daily workout of just 30 minutes a day can help dieters lose more weight than exercising for an hour, scientists have found. 

Scientists have discovered shorter workouts can help dieters lose more weight than working out for a full hour

For anyone wanting to lose weight, you may need to exercise less than you thought.

A new study has found that people who exercised for just half an hour a day lost a third more weight than those who did an hour long work out.

The scientists behind the study found that the shorter exercise sessions left the participants with more energy and motivation to live healthier lifestyles.

A full hour of hard fitness training was more likely to leave those taking part feeling burned out.


12 minutes of high-intensity exercise across three sessions could be enough to keep us fit and healthy

Four-minute bursts of high-intensity exercise such as running on a treadmill, three times a week are enough to increase fitness, researchers found.

Overweight volunteers who undertook the regime for 10 weeks increased their body's oxygen uptake – a measure of fitness – by 10 per cent and saw small decreases in their blood pressure and glucose levels.

Health guidelines generally state that we should undertake at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise or 20 minutes of vigorous exercise per week in order to stay healthy.

But the new study suggests that just 12 minutes of high-intensity exercise, spread out across three sessions, could be enough to keep us fit and healthy, researchers said.

The team from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim studied the effects of different exercise regimes on 24 men who were overweight but otherwise healthy.

Lack of sleep gives you the munchies because it triggers the same part of the brain as smoking cannabis, scientists find.

Researchers at The Endocrine Society's Annual Meeting in San Francisco said that when healthy, lean, young adults received only 4.5 hours of sleep a night, they had higher daytime or blood levels of the molecule that controls the pleasurable aspects of eating.

The molecule is part of the endocannabinoid system, and similar to the narcotic content of marijuana, famous for causing the 'munchies'.

Dr Erin Hanlon, of Chicago University, said: "Past experimental studies show that sleep restriction increases hunger and appetite.

"The mechanism for overeating after inadequate sleep may be an elevation in this endocannabinoid molecule, called 2-arachidonoylglycerol, or 2-AG."

The study focused on nine people with an average age of 23 who spent a total of twelve nights in a sleep lab.

Twenty minutes of yoga is better for boosting brain activity than vigorous exercise for the same amount of time, a study has found.

Researchers report that a single, short session of the popular Hatha yoga significantly improves working as it improves memory, speed and focus, more so than regular workouts.

The university study involved a 20-minute progression of seated, standing and supine yoga postures that included contraction and relaxation of different muscle groups and regulated breathing. The session concluded with a meditative posture and deep breathing.

The 30 female undergraduate students at the University of Illinois in the US, also completed an aerobic exercise session where they walked or jogged on a treadmill for 20 minutes.

Each subject worked out at a suitable speed and incline of the treadmill, with the goal of maintaining 60 to 70 percent of her maximum heart rate throughout the exercise session.

The researchers were surprised to see that participants showed more improvement in their reaction times and accuracy on cognitive tasks after yoga practice than after the aerobic exercise session, which showed no significant improvements on the working memory and inhibitory control scores.