Just Five Minutes

- Jeff Galloway

If you run for at least 30 minutes three times a week, congrats: you’re doing enough to maintain your running fitness. Tack on another 60 minutes of activity each week – from running, cross training, or some combination of the two – and you’re exercising enough to meet the US Centres for Disease Control’s recommendation for healthy adults. (And doing more than most people in the US: 51 per cent of the population fails to meet this guideline. Sad, or what?!) Still, investing just a little more time in your health can produce even bigger benefits. Here’s how:

1. RUN A BIT LONGER