While I was in fellowship, I found an article that I found pertinent to my limited schedule at the time. I told myself that my time to workout would increase after I graduated from fellowship. As I've been building and establishing my own personal practice through New England Orthopedic Surgeons over the last two years, I see that was wishful thinking but I also keep mentally referencing this article.
This prospective study, "Association of the "weekend Warrior' and Other Leisure-time Physical Activity Patterns With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality" by Dos Santos et al., noted no significant difference in all-cause mortality rates or cause-specific mortality rates due to cardiovascular diseases or cancer when comparing weekend warriors, or those who train once or twice a week with just 75 minutes of vigorous activity, or 150 minutes of moderate activity to those who train three or more times per week.
Regularly active patients, or those who work out more than three times per week, were found to have a lower all-cause mortality rate and cause-specific mortality rate than the physically inactive. However, a non-statistically significant difference was noted in mortality between weekend warriors and physically inactivate participants.
The findings suggest that when performing the same amount of physical activity, spreading it out over more days or concentrating it into fewer days may not influence mortality. There are many limitations to this study but its findings are interesting.
How does this change how you think of the typical career-focused athlete?
Read the article on PubMed below:
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