"I just don't have time! I'm overwhelmed!" These are phrases we repeat to ourselves when we consider making a change to a more active lifestyle. It's true, and we can't deny it, that the pace of life traps us: family, work, various responsibilities, and commitments push us to the limit of the time we have throughout the day, not to mention the need for a minimum number of hours of sleep to stay healthy. But in recent years, we've been so insistently told that we need a minimum amount of physical activity each week that if we don't meet it, we feel like we've failed. The World Health Organization recommends 150 to 300 minutes of aerobic exercise per week, to which we must add strength, balance, stability, and joint mobility exercises. With this article, we want to introduce a new paradigm thanks to a series of recent studies that They show us that perhaps so much time isn't necessary. to get in shape.

Nowadays we hear a lot about strength training to improve our physical health and to delay aging. But many times, when these words are spoken to us, we are not very clear what they are referring to, nor do we know how to put it into practice.