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    Roughly 90-120 minutes of strength training per week linked with a 13% reduced risk of premature death, in study involving three decades’ worth of data from nearly 150,000 adults
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    Roughly 90-120 minutes of strength training per week linked with a 13% reduced risk of premature death, in study involving three decades’ worth of data from nearly 150,000 adults

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    3. AmpEater on

      That’s 15 min a day on average

      That’s kinda a lot. But maybe I’m imagining a few reps to failure type training 

    6. beerion on

      Curious how this relates to cardio only. My first thought is that this has a selection bias towards people that are more health conscious.

    7. AFisch00 on

      Here’s a question I have always had. What constitutes training? If a construction contractor is digging all day and lifting heavy loads, is that considered strength training?

    8. 13thmurder on

      I wonder if this means the average person has a ~13% chance of being crushed to death by a heavy object.

    9. SirDiego on

      I swear these studies keep coming out like “150 minutes a week of exercise is good for you” and then “100 minutes of exercise a week…” Eventually it’s going to just be “please for the love of god just do something, literally anything, sitting on your ass all day every day is really really bad.”

    10. Reddituser183 on

      That’s it? Doesn’t seem like much benefit. Would think it would be much more.

    11. LavenderBlueProf on

      cool

      now how do we link what we know, from all the exercise is good for you research, to how we live like having employers support us exercising or structuring society to make some room for it?

    12. Minute_Chair_2582 on

      Hmm…how premature are we talking though? Over a life span of 80 years and having to start the strength training after the age of 10, it’d not be worth the time lost training if the time gain was less than 0.86 years – not taking into account possibly additional time spent traveling to the place you do the training like a gym

    14. ContinuingAnyway on

      “Eat less, move more. Get proper sleep and a proper diet”. It’s so simple yet everytime a study like this gets posted a random commenter will deny why they can’t seem to meet at least 2 of these, blaming everything else but their own failures

    15. T1Earn on

      if instead of strength training i did cardio for 90-120 minutes a week, what % would that be?

    17. spaceboat13 on

      I mean if someone is getting 90-120 minutes of strength training alone high change that they prbly put an emphasis at leading an overall healthier life.

    19. secret179 on

      Ok i am officially stopping all and any excercise, this training is not worth the 13%.

    21. Rickbox on

      Okay, I do that per day. Does this mean I get 52%+ reduced risk of premature death?

    22. tnred19 on

      I read the article but not the paper. But the study seems to have just followed people, based on the article. Did it control for other factors? Are people who did other healthy things like eat better and go to the doctor regularly also the ones more likely to exercise? Is this causal?

    27. tasteothewild on

      So how many people have to do at least 90 mins strength training each week for one of them to not die prematurely? This is the number needed to treat and is so much more useful then a “23% less likely“ statistic.

    29. neuparpol on

      I am going to go on a limb here and say it is because people who are about to die prematurely can’t do physical exercise due to disability.