{"id":2249,"date":"2022-08-01T01:19:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2022-08-01T01:19:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T01:19:46","slug":"how-many-times-a-week-should-you-exercise-and-for-how-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/?p=2249","title":{"rendered":"How many times a week should you exercise and for how long?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leading an active lifestyle has major physical and mental benefits, as raising your heart rate and exercising your body on a regular basis can reduce the risk of many kinds of diseases and\u00a0health\u00a0conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, a 2020 YouGov survey found that on average, a quarter of Britons (27 per cent)\u00a0aren\u2019t managing a single 30-minute exercise\u00a0session a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is despite the NHS recommending that adults should do some type of physical activity every day, from moderate activity, such as brisk walking, to vigorous activity, like running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But every person has different needs and levels of ability, so it can be hard to know how much\u00a0exercise\u00a0you should be doing to reach your\u00a0fitness\u00a0goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/fitness-exercise-beginner-weight-train-result-b2133911.html\">Get the full story at Independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leading an active lifestyle has major physical and mental benefits, as raising your heart rate and exercising your body on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativemedicine.today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}