Brady Holmer

either your cognitive work that you're doing, because you really do, you just feel clear, you feel sharp after, you feel energized.

So I really do think there's like nothing like HIIT to improve brain health and obviously long-term brain health through exercise training, but just to use it acutely as well, just as like this kind of stimulant almost.

With the exercise snacks, it obviously, I think that psychologically, you know, knowing that you have to just exercise for one to two minutes at a time, it feels easier.

And so one of their, I think, goals with these exercise snacks and doing these actual studies was one of the barriers to exercise for some people is all I have to exercise for 30 to 40 minutes at a time.

I don't really want to exercise.

to do that.

Now people should probably learn to do that, but you know, for people who may not comply with that, it feels psychologically easier than long workouts and they don't really require any special equipment.

If you're doing them throughout the day while you're working at a job, you don't even have to change your clothes.

And so it just removes that psychological barrier that I have to get dressed and go to the gym and exercise for 30 minutes at a time.

With exercise snacks, you're doing it for one to five minutes and then it's over and you just do it a few times per day.

So psychologically, they feel easier.

These consistent small efforts also appear to enhance adherence.

And so when they conduct these studies, they find that adherence is pretty high as compared to maybe some of the exercise training studies where people don't necessarily do all the exercise that they're prescribed, especially if it's supposed to be at home and it doesn't require them coming into the lab.

So those are kind of two of the psychological benefits.

And I think those can be leveraged by, again, maybe non-exercisers, but also people who exercise.

But there are a lot of physiological benefits to the exercise snacks as well.

I mean, there are multiple studies by Dr. Gabal and colleagues showing people improve their VO2 max just by doing these exercise snacks.

four to five times per day for a few times per week.

They can improve cardiometabolic health, so they can improve their blood pressure, reduce their fasting blood glucose, improve their HbA1c, so measures of body composition, glucose regulation.

All of these can improve with exercise snacks, which is profound, I think.