A study analyzed accelerometer data from 93,409 UK Biobank participants and found that adults engaging in moderate to vigorous physical activity primarily on one or two days per week, known as the 'weekend warrior' pattern, may experience mortality risk reductions similar to those who spread activity throughout the week. Compared with inactive individuals, both weekend warriors and regularly active individuals showed reduced all-cause death, cardiovascular disease mortality, and cancer mortality hazard ratios. The findings suggest that accumulating at least 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per week may confer survival benefits regardless of how the activity is distributed.

Source: Journal of the American Heart Association