Women need significantly less sports drive to do the same health benefits pull like Men.
This conclusion is reached US-China Study with more than 400,000 people in the period from 1997 to 2019.
Men achieved a maximum reduction in the risk of death if they did about 300 minutes of physical exercise per week. According to the researchers, the women only needed 140 minutes to do this.
“Women lag behind men when it comes to getting meaningful exercise.” Martha Gulati from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los Angeles (state of California, USA), mentioned in a statement from his institution. You and your colleagues, like Hong Wei Ji from Tsinghua University in Beijing, wanted to know what effects sport has on health and used a national database, the “National Health Interview Survey”, as the Journal of the American College of Cardiology writes. The 412,413 adults selected, 55 percent of whom were women, provided information in the survey via a questionnaire about the type and extent of their sporting activity per week. Over the study period of more than 20 years, nearly 40,000 participants died, including 11,670 from cardiovascular disease.
Women have to fight less – for the same benefits
Researchers have now determined to what extent this Risk of death fell through sport. Regular sporting activity in leisure time reduced this risk by an average of 15 percent for men and 24 percent for women – in both cases, compared to people who did not practice any sport.
With regard Cardiovascular diseases The reduction through sport was 14 percent for men and 36 percent for women. The difference was equally big Sports exerciseswho Muscles Strengthen: Regular strength training reduced the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by eleven percent in men and 30 percent in women.
When men exercised intensely for 110 minutes a week, their risk of death fell by 19%. The women reached this value after just 57 minutes of intensive training. “The beauty of this study is that Women get more out of every minute of moderate to vigorous activity than men,” emphasizes Gulati. She and her team hope that the results of the study will encourage more women to be physically active, as the time needed to have a positive effect on health is not particularly long.
Take gender into account when recommending sports
For Kuno Hottenrott from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, the result is no surprise. “I've been advocating this for a long time Sports recommendations in health guidelines Gender It is Old “differentiate”, emphasizes the sports scientist. In 2008, he had already developed a formula to calculate the ideal pulse rate for endurance sports that took into account the differences between women and men. metabolic rate, smaller body dimensions and lower blood volume than men, explains Hottenrott.