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This reminded me of a submission from last week: “Working Out Only on Weekends Is Equal as Daily Exercise” – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32390947 https

• russellbeattie 4y ago
  LOL, I was just going to link to that. Studies about exercise and weight loss are like the ones about red wine and chocolate. There's a contradictory article every other week. These sorts of things are accepted or rejected totally based on subjective opinion. If you're a type A person, you're thinking, "This sounds right, I guess I better find a 15 minute slot in my daily schedule." and if you're type B like myself, who shudders at the thought of the monotony of another daily task, you immediately think, "Hey, waitasecond! I thought we could just leave it to the weekend??" To each their own.
  • jdkoeck 4y ago
    I agree that these things are subjectively accepted/rejected, but you should know that there is no such thing as « type a » and « type b » person. Type a/b is a primitive typology based on old research funded by the tobacco industry.
  • hackernewds 4y ago
    I can see how weekend = daily workout could be a perfunctory interpretation of the same results as in the title post.
    • symlinkk 4y ago
      Huh?
  • brushfoot 4y ago
    Not that there aren't contradictory studies, but I don't see that here - this study focuses on muscles while the weekend study focused on all-cause mortality. I.e., just exercising on the weekends may be enough to live longer, but spreading weight training out throughout the week is more effective for muscle growth than the equivalent sum of the training on the weekend only.