Women need to do less exercise than men to gain the same physiological benefits

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50mins into Woman's Hour - Tracey Crouch MP, Marina Litvinenko, Author Kiley Reid - BBC Sounds Baz Moffat talks about a study that has just been published reporting that women need to do less exercise than men to gain the same physiological benefits.

A huge study (412000 participants) over two decades - great amounts of insight gathered.

  • It’s great to see gender specific data being presented
  • Really brilliant to start talking about the fact that women respond differently to exercise than men.
  • But what I would really like to see is that we don’t use this research as justification to stop doing all the great work that is happening to address the inequalities around access to sport and exercise for girls and women.

A great study - let’s keep looking at girls and women as a specific group and working out what’s best for them

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really? i thought itll be harder for women actually

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We’re not to sure as to the “why” yet, but women get more gain from exercise than men - or that’s the suggestion of the study. 140 minutes of moderate exercise a week reduced women’s risk of premature death from any cause by 18% compared with being inactive. Men needed 300 minutes of exercise for a similar gain.

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