With help from 2,000 Framingham Heart Study participants, BU researchers studied how much being sedentary, walking, and routine exercise impacts fitness Exercise is healthy. That is common knowledge.

In the largest study performed to date to understand the relationship between habitual physical activity and physical fitness, researchers have found that higher amount of time spent performing ...

A new study suggests that more intense physical activity can deliver the same health benefits as moderate-intensity ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Moderate to vigorous physical activity was linked to lower risk for cardiac arrest. The benefits of physical ...

A six-year analysis of more than 94,000 adults in the U.K. Biobank with no history of heart failure at enrollment has found that engaging in moderate or vigorous physical activity may lower the risk ...

NEW ORLEANS — When I was previously asked, what’s the difference between moderate-to-vigorous (MVPA) and vigorous physical activity, my simple answer was mild to moderate exercise is not breaking a ...

Moderate or vigorous physical activity is greater than three times more beneficial to a person’s health than walking, according to new research. A recent study published in the European Heart Journal ...

Exercise is healthy. That is common knowledge. But just how rigorous should that exercise be in order to really impact a person's fitness level? And, if you sit all day at a desk, but still manage to ...

Researchers report that vigorous physical activity accounts for only 4% of adults waking time while sedentary behavior accounts for 60%. They say that even light physical activity can increase the ...

(Boston)—In the largest study performed to date to understand the relationship between habitual physical activity and physical fitness, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) ...