Exercise Snacks: A Novel Strategy to Improve Cardiometabolic Health Journal Articles

abstract

• We define exercise snacks as isolated ≤1-min bouts of vigorous exercise performed periodically throughout the day. We hypothesize that exercise snacks are a feasible, well-tolerated, and time-efficient approach to improve cardiorespiratory fitness and reduce the negative impact of sedentary behavior on cardiometabolic health. Efficacy has been demonstrated in small proof-of-concept studies. Additional research should investigate this novel physical activity strategy.

authors

• Islam, Hashim
• Gibala, Martin
• Little, Jonathan P

status

• published 

publication date

• January 2022

has subject area

• 0913 Mechanical Engineering (FoR)
• 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences (FoR)
• 1116 Medical Physiology (FoR)
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness (MeSH)
• Cardiovascular Diseases (MeSH)
• Exercise (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Sedentary Behavior (MeSH)
• Snacks (MeSH)
• Sport Sciences (Science Metrix)

published in

• Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews  Journal

keywords

• Cardiorespiratory Fitness
• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Exercise
• Humans
• Sedentary Behavior
• Snacks

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1249/jes.0000000000000275

PubMed ID

• 34669625

start page

• 31

end page

• 37

volume

• 50

issue

• 1