{"id":356057,"date":"2026-03-31T01:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356057\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:20:07","slug":"just-minutes-of-hard-exercise-may-cut-your-disease-risk-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356057\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Minutes of Hard Exercise May Cut Your Disease Risk, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much exercise is enough?<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">As little as 4 to 5 minutes a day of vigorous activity are linked to substantial changes, says Stamatakis. \u201cFour and a half minutes are associated with approximately 35 to 50% lower risk for incident cardiovascular disease,\u201d he says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How can you tell if exercise counts as \u201cvigorous?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cIf you can speak comfortably, that means that you are still in the moderate zone,\u201d says Stamatakis. \u201cWhen you enter the vigorous zone, you will get out of breath.\u201d Vigorous exercise is often fairly uncomfortable, and most people who don\u2019t exercise often are unlikely to be able to sustain it for more than a minute or two at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How much exercise is enough? As little as 4 to 5 minutes a day of vigorous activity are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9511,565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-356057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-exercise-fitness","9":"tag-fitness","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}