Zealous Exerciser?
msnbc.cominvestigates the weekend warrier.
They’re heroes of the modern world. The busy bees who work all week and still find time to play hard on Saturday and Sunday to make up for all that desk jockeying. They’re the weekend warriors, of course.
Turns out, though, there may not be all that many of them.
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scanned two national databases involving nearly 300,000 Americans to determine how many people actually do cram a week’s worth of exercise — at least 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity — into two days a week (not necessarily on just Saturdays and Sundays).
They found that only about 1 percent to 3 percent of Americans actually fit the bill of a weekend warrior, according to a report in the May issue of the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. One database was from 2003 and one covered 1999 through 2004.
Given all the anecdotal reports about the weekend-warrior phenomenon, “we were surprised that the prevalence was low,� says study author Judy Kruger, an epidemiologist at the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
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