[USA], Aug 12 ( ANI ): Turns out, people with higher incomes tend to be "
weekend warriors," getting most of their activity on only a few days a week, but they still face health woes from their sedentary work life.
Rich people more physically active, yet more sedentary
Researchers found that, compared with inactive adults, insufficiently active adults,
weekend warriors and regularly active adults had about a 30 percent risk reduction in all-cause mortality, and a 40 percent reduction in CVD mortality.
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A total of 62.8% were classified as inactive, 22.4% as insufficiently active (performing less than 150 minutes per week of moderate-intensity activity), 3.7% as
weekend warriors, and 11.1% as regularly active.
'Weekend warrior' exercise pattern sufficient to cut mortality
Reductions in Mortality Risk by Activity Group as Compared with Inactive Adults All-cause CVD Total deaths 8,802 2,780 Insufficiently 34% reduced risk 40% reduced risk active
Weekend warriors 30% reduced risk 40% reduced risk Regularly active 35% reduced risk 41% reduced risk Cancer Total deaths 2,526 Insufficiently 17% reduced risk active
Weekend warriors 18% reduced risk Regularly active 21% reduced risk The regularly active--those spreading their exercise across three or more sessions per week at or above World Health Organization/U.S.
Good news for weekend warriors
A retrospective data audit was completed to summarise the number of referrals and physical activity (measured via exercise repetitions) completed in the
Weekend Warrior program at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital between June 2013 and November 2015.
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Using trail cameras should definitely be a high priority for every whitetail hunter, with special emphasis for the
weekend warrior. Art Helin, a 34-year bowhunting veteran from southwest Wisconsin, knows the stress of weekend-warrior hunting.
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* Music Minus One:
Weekend Warriors, Set List One, with CD, by various composers.
Music Minus One: Weekend Warriors, Set List One, with CD
Wynford Ellis Owen, chief executive of the Welsh Council for Alcohol and other drugs, warned that an ongoing normalisation of drugs and alcohol in society was causing problems to spill over from drug binges among "
weekend warriors" and into the working week.
'WEEKEND WARRIOR' WARNING
ON any given Monday, vets' waiting rooms up and down the country contain the latest victims of '
weekend warrior syndrome'.
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A CHARITY
weekend warrior course is available for wannabe soldiers.
WHAT'SON
"They've grown the business, got into making our own boats, and added a little business-savvy," Down River makes pro and "
weekend warrior" rafts, "catarafts" and inflatable kayaks ("duckies"), as well as its high-end custom raft frames for paddlers and anglers, including deluxe fishing frames with casting platforms and lean bars.
Down River Equipment boats and frames
The H3T
Weekend Warrior features a modified suspension to handle extreme off-road duty, and Baja Orange Metallic paint.
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SAFETY PRODUCT KITS are ideal for the
weekend warrior or professional that understands that the right equipment can make the job easier and safer.
Safety product kits
This is the first time the
Weekend Warrior programme has come to Liverpool, but the Dawson's Music store in Warrington is running the scheme for the fourth time this year.
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Perris-based
Weekend Warrior specializes in making "toy haulers," trailers that combine space for storing motorcycles, ATVs and other gear with RV-like living space.
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