People who jammed almost all of their exercise into the weekends were much less likely to develop heart problems than people who rarely exercised.
Their hearts, in fact, were as healthy as those of people who spread out their exercise more evenly throughout the week.The results undercut some widely held beliefs about weekend warriors and whether their exercise routines are safe and effective. They also offer the useful message that the right time to exercise is whenever you can or want to, even if that’s only on Saturdays.
The scientists pulled records for 89,573 of them, most in their 60s, about half women. After parsing their activity data, the researchers categorized them as meeting the exercise guidelines or not, and then as working out on many days of the week or mostly on one or two, qualifying them as weekend warriors.Finally, they checked people’s health records for diagnoses of heart conditions, including heart attacks, atrial fibrillation and stroke.
“Our findings suggest it is the total amount of physical activity and not the pattern of physical activity that matters” for heart-condition risks, said Shaan Khurshid, a staff electrophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, instructor at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the new study.Notably, the weekend warriors also didn’t seem to injure themselves more often than other people, according to the available Biobank data.
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