Drop the gym and personal trainer! Twelve minutes' exercise per week 'enough to stay fit'

Just 12 minutes of intensive exercise per week is enough to improve your health if you are overweight, a study has found.Four-minute bursts of high-intensity exercise such as running on a treadmill, three times a week are enough to increase fitness, researchers found.Overweight volunteers who undertook the regime for 10 weeks increased their body's oxygen uptake – a measure of fitness – by 10 per cent and saw small decreases in their blood pressure and glucose levels.... more 》 Twelve minutes' exercise per week 'enough to stay fit' - Telegraph