{"id":93069,"date":"2026-08-18T20:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93069"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:40:58","slug":"the-amount-of-exercise-needed-to-achieve-optimal-heart-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/18\/the-amount-of-exercise-needed-to-achieve-optimal-heart-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"The amount of exercise needed to achieve &#8216;optimal&#8217; heart benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA21oOBZ.img?w=768&h=503&m=6&x=919&y=747&s=1893&d=367\" alt=\"Researchers from Macao Polytechnic University in China now suggest optimal heart benefits \" \/><\/p>\n<p>New research suggests that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/health-and-fitness\/brits-overweight-nhs-physical-activity-guidelines-b2975745.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">exercising<\/a>\u00a0for up to 610 minutes a week \u2013 approximately four times the recommended minimum \u2013 could offer \u201coptimal\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">heart<\/a> benefits. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/fitness-and-exercise\/the-amount-of-exercise-needed-to-achieve-optimal-heart-benefits\/ar-AA23BHxG?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a84be4c04da4e20bb56315851db03ea&ei=44\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>New research suggests that\u00a0exercising\u00a0for up to 610 minutes a week \u2013 approximately four times the recommended minimum \u2013 could offer \u201coptimal\u201d\u00a0heart benefits&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Work-from-Home-exercise.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93070,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93069\/revisions\/93070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}