The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (and similar recommendations from other countries) call for healthy adults to get 150 minutes of moderate exercise, like walking, per week. Vigorous exercise counts double, so if you’re a runner, you can meet the minimum guidelines with 75 minutes. But what if you have the time to do more—is that helpful to your health? And where does strength training fall?
The guidelines consider strength training to be separate from the guidelines exercise duration. (You should strength train twice a week in addition to getting in your minutes of aerobic exercise.) But a new study has looked at how many minutes of exercise are linked to lowered mortality, and it included strength training in its accounting.
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