Do you get the same health benefits, or is it not as good?
2007-09-17 06:25:54 · 10 answers · asked by albania22 1 in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
you have to exercise at least every other day to get any benefit. if you only exercise once a week, it's like you didn't do anything at all.
2007-09-17 06:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, not really. You'll burn some extra calories for a few hrs after that 1 workout, then get no other benefit for the other 6 days of the week. A good program is 1 hour a day, at least 5 days a week...
You can't combine several days of exercise into 1 day and hope to get the same benefit (just as it's not healthy to eat a week's worth of calories in one day, and fast the other 6), although doing some activity is better than doing nothing...exercising just 1 day a week is more likely to lead to injury and little, if any, weight loss (if that is the goal) than doing a few mins (more than 20) a day, every day.
2007-09-17 06:38:43 · answer #2 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with those who say "no" but I also want to add:
It's a lot easier to raise the intensity of the workout when you're consistently working out. For example, if you start at 3.5 mph, 5.0 incline on the treadmill once for 90 minutes, you might burn the same amount of calories as doing it 3 times for 30 minutes. BUT, next week you'll still only be able to go 3.5 mph at 5.0 incline. Whereas if you do it 3 times for 30 minutes, your body gets used to the workout, and next week you can do 3.7 mph and/or 7.0 incline.
2007-09-17 06:48:27 · answer #3 · answered by mysteria1884 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is not nearly as beneficial.
you really won't be getting much benefit after 40 minutes of working out, because you will start burning muscle and you are only getting your heartrate up once a week as opposed to 3 times. stick with the 3 x 30 minute sessions.
2007-09-17 06:41:51 · answer #4 · answered by Greg S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is definitely not as good, because ur working urself very hard at once all together, and as the first answerer said, u need to get ur heart rate up a few times a week...also u often put the calories back on as soon as u start eating, because u get hungrier, after a 90 min work out and the body takes it all in, cos u've lost so much energy....
2007-09-17 06:31:39 · answer #5 · answered by $he 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree with backwardsinheels.
While you are likely to burn the same amount of calories either way, I believe repeated excercise results in a healhtier body (your body thinks, "okay, since this is a regular thing, I cant just burn that excess fat, I better tone up")
that's my resoning on it anyway.
2007-09-17 06:31:48 · answer #6 · answered by q4norm.answ3rs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely not as good. Its better to get your body going a couple times a week, you will burn more that way.
2007-09-17 06:30:30 · answer #7 · answered by DJ_<3_JI 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not as good. You want to raise your heart rate several times per week.
2007-09-17 06:28:39 · answer #8 · answered by backwardsinheels 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
not the same. if you only worked once a week, you would lose any gains before the next work out. in order to progress you have to work out, recover and work out again before atrophy sets in.
2007-09-17 06:30:27 · answer #9 · answered by ohiojeff 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-09-17 06:41:21 · answer #10 · answered by sleaze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋