Dr. Kerry Courneya

And now they're not even saying to spread it out over multiple days.

And they're not even saying it needs to be a minimum of 10 minutes at once.

So the whole weekend warrior thing brought that.

Well, you can probably go on a Saturday and Sunday and do 50 minutes, you know, if you're out doing a workout.

hiking or some other activity, and that might be just as beneficial as spreading it out over different days.

Now, that's on the prevention side of things.

Things get trickier, I think, on treatment side of things where maybe more frequent bouts are important because you're looking at the acute effects of exercise, accumulating acute effects.

But in terms of the general prevention strategy, the more you do, the better.

And it doesn't really matter how you slice it up over the course of a week, as long as you get to that 150 minutes.

Yeah, it's a good question.

So the general recommendation is actually 150 to 300 minutes.

So, you know, 150, we kind of use the minimum to getting these benefits.

And then those benefits will continue to accrue up to about 300 minutes.

And then the curves kind of plateau after that.

You know, you can certainly do more than that.

But in terms of bang for your buck and really getting the benefits is getting up to that 150 minutes and then further increases as you get to 300 minutes.

But it does kind of plateau after that.

Yeah.

So it is viewed more as the minimum of achieving that.

And all these guidelines note that further benefits can be gained by doing more.