Brady Holmer

One thing to note, I think, is that these people were previously untrained.

So I don't think you can take somebody who's exercising at a level of maybe what you and I are doing, Rhonda, and do exercise snacks.

You're going to see huge health benefits, especially like VO2 max.

But I certainly think that they can be additive.

So if you are exercising and you add these exercise snacks, you can receive additional health benefits.

But you might not see a 50% improvement in your VO2 max by doing exercise snacks.

But studies have shown that, and so I think they can be very potent in doing that as well, in showing that it doesn't require a large time investment just to see a fitness improvement.

And then I think one of the other benefits is that they break up sedentary time throughout the day.

So we know that being sedentary, sitting for, say, 30 to 60 minutes or longer, or maybe three hours at a time is not good for cardiometabolic health.

So breaking up your sedentary time as much as possible is good.

And so...

Physically, psychologically, just with the cognitive benefits too, using these exercise snacks intermittently throughout the day can improve physical health by reducing sedentary time and keep you more focused by reducing your kind of the cognitive maybe slump that you get after you sit for three hours or so at a time.

Sure.

And also, you know, can be used to kind of, if you feel like you don't have enough time with your main training sessions during the week to kind of meet that minimum recommended levels of physical activity, I think to exercise snacks again can be additive.

So they can be used to kind of

Bring your total exercise volume during the week up to meet those activity levels or sneak in maybe extra exercise if you don't find you have the time or miss a training session.

Or maybe there's a day where you just don't have the time to dedicate to an actual training session.

I'm going to do exercise snacks today and that could be a suitable alternative.

I do exercise snacks during the day, even though I'm training a lot, just again, mostly like for the psychological benefits.

It's I'll do like some kettlebell swings and push up some pull ups.