Jeffrey Bland argues you don't need intense workouts to see real health gains. Just five minutes of daily movement like walking or standing could prevent about 6% of all deaths. Stop waiting for the perfect gym routine and start moving today.
We don't have to be in a training program with a gym. Physical activity of 5 minutes a day might prevent 6% of all deaths. People think you have to be training for marathons and you have to be an ultra athlete. You have to be at some kind of a fitness center putting yourself through the pains of burn. And now what we start to recognize is that, no, it doesn't require that much exercise or activity to make dramatic changes of improvement in our health. We just have to get ourselves each day walking more, ambulating, doing things on our feet. This makes a huge difference. And then when we look at quantifying public health impact, what we find is this probably has a significant impact on improving health. So we are really able to implement something that's pretty simple. Get started today. Start walking.
