So how much running do you need to do? Fifty minutes of running once a week at a pace slower than 10km per hour appear to be protective.
A study from the European Society of Cardiology, published in 2012, showed that regular jogging increases the life expectancy of men by 6.2 years and women by 5.6 years. Researchers from the Copenhagen City Heart study presented this data at the EuroPREvent20212 meeting.
If you jog, you may improve your oxygen uptake, increase insulin sensitivity, and improve your lipid profiles (raising HDL, or so-called “good” cholesterol, while lowering triglycerides). You may drop your blood pressure, reduce aggregation of your blood platelets, improve heart function, bone density, immune system function, reduce inflammation, lower the risk of obesity, and help with psychological function. And for some of us, you may even have more social interactions as you are out jogging!
British Medical Journal 21 August 2019, found that being sedentary (say, sitting still for 9.5 hours or more daily) is associated with an increased risk of premature death.
People that say they don’t have time to exercise might not have time to NOT exercise.