Too Much Exercise BAD For Your Health?

Hey there – Happy Friday!

I’m enjoying the last few days home with my new baby girl, and doing all I can to help out around the house before I get back to leading workouts at the studio at the end of next week.

SO glad and appreciative to have been able to take a couple of weeks away to spend with family, it has been really, really awesome.

How about you? What do you have planned for the weekend?

Don’t have a ton of time today but wanted to stay in touch – saw this article come across in my email inbox so thought I would share it –

=> http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/08/14/wanted-just-the-right-amount-of-exercise/73600.html

The idea behind it is that meeting the minimum recommended amount of physical activity – >150 minutes/week of moderate exercise – decreases risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.

Emerging research, however, warns that individuals can overdo exercise increasing the risk of a cardiovascular event. That is, the ‘more is better’ strategy can lead to cardiac overuse injury.

Read the article for more details – but the general recommendation is to train 30-40 mins most days, and not longer than 60.

ESPECIALLY interesting – because we’ve been a proponent of this short-duration, high-intensity, maximum-results-from-minimum-time approach at FVT for years. And this is exactly how we design every one of our boot camp and personal training workouts.

Anyway, gotta run – hope you have a great weekend, and talk soon –

Forest Vance
Master of Science, Human Movement
Owner, FVT Boot Camp and Personal Training

PS – LOTS of awesome stuff coming in the fall of 2014 at FVT … FVT Charity Boot camp, 30 Day Rapid Fat Loss Challenge, our FOUR year anniversary party, possible new evening semi private training session times, new openings in our nutrition coaching group and a lot more … stay tuned!!

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